Alphabetical Africa (New Directions Book) - Hardcover

Abish, Walter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0811205320 ISBN 13: 9780811205320

Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc, 1974

Synopsis

Abish, Alphbetical Africa. A continent forms and crumbles through a linguistic tour de force.

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Review:

"A novel of erotic obsession, in which language itself has received the transferred charge of feeling." --Richard Howard

From the Back Cover:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Publication date: 1974
• ISBN 10: 0811205320
• ISBN 13: 9780811205320
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 152