Out of the Loud Hound of Darkness: A Dictionarrative
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Traveling on fromThe Deluxe Transitive VampireandTorn Wings and Faux Pas(chosen by theLos Angeles Times Book Reviewas one of the best books of 1997), Karen Elizabeth Gordon continues her wildly imaginative romp withOut of the Loud Hound of Darknessthrough a gothic landscape of language and her mythically Balkan world, a howling terrain and a cast of rampageous, eerie characters. Myriad underground passages harbor mementos of horrific history, as the young dragons and au pair discover in their explorations. Through this spellbinding narrative, with its brigands, coiffeur, Count Ghastly, moguls, alchemical queen, courtesan, contrary cartographer, and cross-dressing cowboys, Gordon illuminates the mysteries of usage, speeding the reader to expertise with such confusions as decry/descry, fatal/fateful, displace/misplace, precipitate/precipitous, and masterful/masterly. A companion lexicon, which includes anomie, farouche, quidnunc, internecine, obloquy, fatidic, and noetic, continues the tales and intrepid trek, all the while treating war, power, and celebrity cults with satirical wit and insight. WithOut of the Loud Hound of DarknessGordon lures you into the intricacies and pleasures of language through a brooding, hilarious fabric of fiction.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0375401989
ISBN13:9780375401985
Release Date:October 1998
Publisher:Pantheon Books
Length:210 Pages
Weight:0.81 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 5.3" x 7.9"
Customer Reviews
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Out of the Loud Hound of Darkness
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 15 years ago
What is the difference between anodyne and androgyne? Follow this gambit through a gamut of word pairs to attain/obtain a clinquant mastery of English vocabulary and word usage.
Elixir of Wit
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 22 years ago
To read any of Karen Elizabeth Gordon's books is to be happily drunk on words. By turns informative, giddy, erotic, hilarious, mysterious and wondrous, it is almost incidental that this and her other books are also penultimate authoritative sources on English language grammar, usage and meaning. Read "Out of the Loud Hound of Darkness" and any of her other books that you can get your hands on!
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Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
A fantastic book from a fine author.The book has great matter in it and provides deep and good insight into it.A fine and a very impressive book is the overall credit to the author.
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