Alphabetical Africa by Abish, Walter [Paperback]

Description: 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. 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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EAN: 9780811205337

UPC: 9780811205337

ISBN: 9780811205337

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Book Title: Alphabetical Africa

Number of Pages: 164 Pages

Language: English

Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation

Topic: General, Literary

Item Height: 0.5 in

Publication Year: 1974

Genre: Fiction, History

Item Weight: 0.4 Oz

Author: Walter Abish

Item Length: 8 in

Item Width: 5.2 in

Format: Trade Paperback