Alphabetical Africa.
Series: A New Directions book
Publisher: New Directions Pub. Corp.; New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: 1974
Place of publication: [New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 152
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.