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Amalgamemnon

Christine Brooke-Rose author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Dalkey Archive Press

Published:21st Jul '94

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A woman about to lose her job as a professor of literature and history delivers a passionate, witty, and word-mad monologue.

“This sort of metafiction can start like a rocket, then fizzle, but Christine Brooke-Rose’s novel keeps gaining momentum, blazes with wit and regains for fiction some of the territory lost to critics in recent raids. On all counts it deserves the three stars from Orion’s belt.” — The Guardian

“About what it feels like to be a word-addict—worse, a writing addict—in the brave new world of communications technology.” — The Observer

"Amalgamemnon is a brilliant example of its author's thesis, proving the eternal creative flexibility of language and the restorative vitality of one person's cultural memory.” — American Book Review

ISBN: 9781564780508

Dimensions: 216mm x 141mm x 10mm

Weight: 195g

152 pages