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Cover of: Alphabetical Africa. by Walter Abish
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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.

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New Directions Pub. Corp., New Directions Publishing Corporation
Language
English
Pages
152

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American fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction

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Cover of: Alphabetical Africa
Alphabetical Africa
2019, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
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Cover of: Alphabetical Africa.
Alphabetical Africa.
1974, New Directions Pub. Corp., New Directions Publishing Corporation
in English
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A New Directions book

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Dewey Decimal Class
813/.5/4
Library of Congress
PZ4.A144 Al, PS3551.B5 Al,

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152 p.
Number of pages
152

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OL5440053M
ISBN 10
0811205320, 0811205339
LCCN
73089478
OCLC/WorldCat
940414
Library Thing
58364
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447705
989199

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