Princess Hoppy, or, the Tale of Labrador Or, the Tale of Labrador |
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| Author:
| Roubaud, Jacques |
| Translator:
| Hoepffner, Bernard |
| ISBN: | 978-1-56478-032-4 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 1993 |
| Publisher: | Deep Vellum Publishing
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| Imprint: | Dalkey Archive Press |
| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $9.95 |
Book Description:
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A postmodern fairy tale might best describe this,delightful new book. How else to describe a novel,that reads like an Arthurian Romance as rewritten,by Lewis Carroll, with enough maths puzzles to,keep the game reader busy with a calculator for,months? There are dramatic abductions, daring,rescues, allegorical interludes, and passages in,hitherto untranscribed languages. There are even,questions at the end to test the reader, for THE,PRINCESS HOPPY is ultimately a giddy inquiry into,how...
More DescriptionA postmodern fairy tale might best describe this,delightful new book. How else to describe a novel,that reads like an Arthurian Romance as rewritten,by Lewis Carroll, with enough maths puzzles to,keep the game reader busy with a calculator for,months? There are dramatic abductions, daring,rescues, allegorical interludes, and passages in,hitherto untranscribed languages. There are even,questions at the end to test the reader, for THE,PRINCESS HOPPY is ultimately a giddy inquiry into,how we read literary works.