Locos A Comedy of Gestures |
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| Author:
| Alfau, Felipe |
| Afterword by:
| McCarthy, Mary |
| Series title: | American Literature Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-56478-171-0 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 1988 |
| Publisher: | Deep Vellum Publishing
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| Imprint: | Dalkey Archive Press |
| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $27.95 |
Book Description:
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Alfau's inventive ""comedy of gestures"" is, like,any hall-of-mirrors fun house, disorientatingmaddening and greatly entertaining. It has,everything any modern best-seller needs: murderincest, fallen priests, lascivious nuns, a couple,of suicides, several mysteries, the living deadpimps, whores, and poets, locales that shift from,China to the Philippnes, to the Caribbean to,Europe.
Alfau's inventive ""comedy of gestures"" is, like,any hall-of-mirrors fun house, disorientatingmaddening and greatly entertaining. It has,everything any modern best-seller needs: murderincest, fallen priests, lascivious nuns, a couple,of suicides, several mysteries, the living deadpimps, whores, and poets, locales that shift from,China to the Philippnes, to the Caribbean to,Europe.