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Tlooth
Paperback
General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $19.95
ISBN13: 9781628976755
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: Nov 17 2026
Pages: 200
Language: English
A comic extravaganza (Washington Post Book World) from one of the most acclaimed voices in American avant-garde literature, Tlooth follows its narrator on a fantastical, globe-trotting quest for revenge.
Opening on a baseball game in a Siberian prison camp, Harry Mathews's Tlooth is absurdist from the jump. The narrator, a three-fingered dental assistant who escapes from Russia to find the criminal surgeon who took the other two fingers, treks across half the world--from Kabul to Venice to Milan to India to Morocco to Rome to France--in pursuit of revenge. From page to outrageous page, Mathews constructs a labyrinth of language, rife with the arcane puzzles, mesmerizing digressions, and nested stories that would become hallmarks of his oeuvre.
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