Alphabetical Africa (New Directions Book) - Softcover

Abish, Walter

 
9780811205337: Alphabetical Africa (New Directions Book)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0811205339 ISBN 13: 9780811205337
Verlag: New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1974

Inhaltsangabe

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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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Walter Abish was born in Vienna in 1931. After moving to the United States in 1957, he taught at several universities in the US, served on the International PEN board, and won Guggenheim and MacArthur fellowships. He lives in New York City.

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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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Verlag
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Erscheinungsdatum
1974
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0811205339
ISBN 13 
9780811205337
Einband
Tapa blanda
Anzahl der Seiten
164
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