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Alphabetical Africa

Paperback • 1974 • English

Alphabetical Africa

By Walter Abish

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About the book

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 Ta...Show more

Language: reference and general

Book details

ISBN

9780811205337

Publisher

NEW DIRECTIONS PUBLISHING CORPORATION

Published year

1974

Language

English

Original title

Alphabetical Africa

Format

Paperback

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