The Adventures of God in His Search for the Black Girl
by:
Brigid Brophy (author)
'In the title story of 'The Adventures of God in His Search for the Black Girl' the main character, God himself, expresses a taste for writing that's sophisticated, stylish, literary. The words apply very well to [Brigid] Brophy's own best work.' New Republic'What we have here is more common in...
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'In the title story of 'The Adventures of God in His Search for the Black Girl' the main character, God himself, expresses a taste for writing that's sophisticated, stylish, literary. The words apply very well to [Brigid] Brophy's own best work.' New Republic'What we have here is more common in England than America: reading that's at once very light and very intellectual.
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Format: Paperback
ISBN:
9780316109765 (0316109762)
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Pages no: 223
Edition language: English
The title-piece takes up approximately the last half of this volume, and is far the most interesting thing in it. But in the "fables" which precede it, some only a line or two long, there is much wit and lots of fun for the literary enthusiast. Brophy positively revels in allusiveness (the title is ...
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