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TexterminationChristine Brooke-Rose
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Textermination

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"In her latest novel, Textermination, the eminent British novelist/critic Christine Brooke-Rose pulls a wide array of characters out of the great works of literature and drops them into the middle of the San Francisco Hilton. Emma Bovary, Emma Woodhouse, Captain Ahab, Odysseus, Huck Finn... all are gathered for the Annual Convention of Prayer for Being, to meet, to discuss, to pray for their continued existence in the mind of the modern reader. But what begins as a grand enterprise erupts into total pandemonium: with characters from different times, places, and genres all battling for respect…

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Editions

3 editions
  • Paperback · English · 1997
    Carcanet · 184 pages · 9781857542943
  • Other · English · 1992
    New Directions Books · 182 pages · 9780811212304
  • Other · English · 1991
    Carcanet · 182 pages · 9780856359521
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