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- catalog abstract "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.".
- catalog contributor b1363898.
- catalog coverage "Africa Fiction.".
- catalog created "1974]".
- catalog date "1974".
- catalog date "1974]".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1974]".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog extent "152 p.".
- catalog identifier "08112053200811205339 (pbk.)".
- catalog isPartOf "New Directions book".
- catalog issued "1974".
- catalog issued "1974]".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "[New York, New Directions Pub. Corp.,".
- catalog spatial "Africa Fiction.".
- catalog subject "813/.5/4".
- catalog subject "PZ4.A144 Al PS3551.B5".
- catalog title "Alphabetical Africa.".
- catalog type "Experimental fiction.".
- catalog type "Fantasy literature United States. rbgenr".
- catalog type "text".