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Title: Amalgamemnon by Christine Brooke-Rose ISBN: 1-56478-050-3 Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press Pub. Date: 01 July, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)
Rating: 4
Summary: A virtuoso monologue
Comment: To give a plot synopsis of this novel would be almost pointless because the book is all about voice. The narrator spills out words and puns and jams them together (as in the title) to make new words, thus forcing the reader to think in new ways about how the words relate. It is also a novel of ideas, and in many ways, a novel about power. The narrator posits herself as Cassandra to the various Agamemnon's (thus amalgamemnon) that ignore her. Technnology, capitalism, and Wester, male-dominated society are all forces that she struggles with. Interestingly, Brooke-Rose also foresees the power of terrorism and the threat of fundamentalism that responds to these same sources of powers. To be sure, though, this is mostly a novel about language, and if you don't enjoy playful, postmodern punning, then skip this one.
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Title: Indelible Acts: Stories by A. L. Kennedy ISBN: 1400040558 Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Pub. Date: 24 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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Title: Fairy Tale (Common Reader Editions) by Alice Thomas Ellis ISBN: 1888173408 Publisher: Akadine Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Narrative Form by Suzanne Keen ISBN: 0333960971 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan Pub. Date: 01 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: The Fifth Child (Vintage International) by Doris May Lessing ISBN: 0679721827 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 May, 1989 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: Time's Arrow: Or the Nature of the Offense by Martin Amis ISBN: 0679735720 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 October, 1992 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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