| Tlooth Contributor(s): Mathews, Harry (Author) |
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ISBN: 1564781941 ISBN-13: 9781564781949 Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press OUR PRICE: $11.25 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 1998 Annotation: Fiction. This classic text by Oulipo writer Harry Mathews begins in a Russian prison camp at a baseball game and goes on to a digressive journey from Afghanistan to Venice, then to India and Morocco and France. All of this takes place amid Mathew's fictional concern and play with games, puzzles, arcana, and stories within stories within stories. "Harry Mathews' TLOOTH fits no category I can think of... in his inventiveness and erudition he is like Pynchon, Barth, and William Gaddis" (Granville Hicks, Saturday Review). |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 98023364 |
| Series: American Literature (Dalkey Archive) |
| Physical Information: 0.55" H x 5.54" W x 8.48" (0.59 lbs) 177 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This novel begins in a Russian prison camp at a baseball game featuring the defective Baptists versus the Fideists. There is a plot (of sorts), one of revenge surrounding a doctor who, in removing a bone spur from our narrator, manages to amputate a ring and index finger, a significant surgical error considering that the narrator is, or was, a violinist. When Dr. Roak is released from prison, our narrator escapes in order to begin the pursuit, and thus begins a digressive journey from Afghanistan to Venice, then on to India and Morocco and France. All of this takes place amid Mathews's fictional concern and play with games, puzzles, arcana, and stories within stories. |