OUT OF THE LOUD HOUND OF DARKNESS
by Karen Elizabeth Gordon
Pantheon Books, First Edition, 1998
Condition: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Here's a book on word usage that's different from the rest. Called a "Dictionarrative", it takes the reader through a Gothic landscape of language. As author Alain de Botton states on the back cover, "A wonderfully amusing, eccentric, and intelligent book which delights in stretching our concept of what literature can be: avant-garde in the best sense, full of fun and fantasy". Illustrated. By the author of THE TRANSITIVE VAMPIRE (see also in this booth).