Tlooth

Name: Tlooth
Brand: Deep Vellum Publishing
Price: 21.75 AUD
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By: Harry Mathews

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Paperback | 7 January 1999

At a Glance

Paperback
177 Pages

Edition Type
New edition

Age
22+

Dimensions(cm)
21.5 x 14.0 x 1.3

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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.

Industry Reviews

"A brilliant book, in a very special way... While the method of telling it is quite sober, and the language plain, what actually happens is bizarre and wonderful. The descriptions that are blandly handed to you show an imagination and an ingenuity that are often just as astonishing. The details are sometimes savage and scabrous... But the book has nothing to do with modish sick humor... It is, for all its incidental excesses, fantasy, pure and simple... If you can take it, this is a journey worth taking." -- Harper's "[Tlooth and Conversions are] comic extravaganzas that play mockingly with every device of fiction." -- Washington Post Book World "An imaginative free-form exercise in the best advanced style, one carefully planned with conventions of plot meticulously disregarded... with an emphasis on bizarre subject matter paramount... Here in brief is a literary "happening" not without some interest for its motivations in technique in a world evidently prepared to abandon the old and tried for the new and quite experimental, at least in prose fiction." -- Virginia Quarterly Review

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