Alphabetical Africa.
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Author
Publication
1974 - New Directions Pub. Corp., [New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
38,000 words, Guess
Page Count
152 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-100811205320
- ISBN-100811205339
- ISBN-139780811205320
- ISBN-139780811205337
- LibraryThing58364
and 6 more
- Goodreads447705', '989199
- Library of Congress Control Number73089478
- OCLC Control Number940414
- Better World Books9780811205337
- Better World BooksP8-DET-278
- Open LibraryOL5440053M
Classifications
- DDC813/.5/4
- LCCPZ4.A144 Al
- LCCPS3551.B5 Al
Description
A "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."--Page 4 of cover.
Subjects
Series Statement
- A New Directions book
Other Editions
- Alphabetical Africa.
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