Jean Lamore's AKA

[rich]

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2078/is_1_47/ai_110531543/print

an excerpt

rich


On 1/17/06, Ya Sam <takoitov at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> AKA
>
> Lamore's novel, written mostly in a working class suburb of Paris, and the
> product of 6 years of intense and wildly eclectic research ranging from
> African geo-politics to ornithology (Lamore´s father is an expert on rare
> birds) has been compared to Anthony Burgess's Clockwork Orange, Thomas
> Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow, and Danté's Purgatory. Aside from a short
> excerpt published in FRANK's recent issue of Expat Writing, the work has
> been kept from public view. AKA by Jean Lamore is one of the most
> innovative
> and thought-provoking novels to emerge so far in the 21st century. Set in
> Paris, New York, and diverse parts of Africa, AKA is a rambunctious romp
> through almost everything we know about both life and language. Both
> upsetting and amusing at once in the best sense of both words. FRANK,
> Paris's longest running anglophone literary journal, has been publishing
> cutting-edge fiction, poetry, and visual art since the early 1980s in the
> great tradition of expat avant-garde publishing. The first 300 readers to
> reserve a copy will receive a numbered and signed copy from a first
> limited
> edition.
>
>
> http://www.paris-anglo.com/dedent/dedent.php?request=gift_shop/jeanlamore/index.php
>
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