Alphabetical Africa
by
Walter Abish
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0811205339
ISBN-13
9780811205337
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Imprint
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Feb 1st, 1974
Print length
164 Pages
Weight
186 grams
Dimensions
20.30 x 13.20 x 1.30 cms
Product Classification:
Early learning: ABC books / alphabet booksPeople & places (Children's / Teenage)
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Alphabetical Africa, Walter Abish's delightful first novel, is an extraordinary linguistic tour de force, high comedy set in an imaginary dark continent that expands and contracts with ineluctable precision, as one by one the author adds the letters of the alphabet to his book, and then subtracts them. While the "geoglyphic" African landscape forms and crumbles, it is, among other things, attacked by an army of driver ants, invaded by Zanzibar, painted orange by the transvestite Queen Quat of Tanzania, and becomes a hunting ground for a pair of murderous jewel thieves tracking down their nymphomaniac moll.
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