Fascinating word-lover’s treasury brings together over 1,100 different anagrams and nearly as many palindromes, plus a host of related phenomena—charades, circular reversals, vocabularyclepts, etc., plus much high-level commentary and observation.
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Anagrams (Paperback)
From Publishers Weekly
Moore, praised for her short story collection Self-Help, makes her debut as a novelist with this story about what may be the disintegration of the thoroughly modern protagonist’s personality. PW called Anagrams “original and highly inventive.” Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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From Library Journal
Who exactly is Benna, the 33-year-old poetry teacher (or singer? or aerobics instructor?) we meet in this inventive novel? It is hard to say. She hidesfrom us, from herselfbehind imaginary identities, relationships, and scenarios in which elements of character and action are transposed like the letters of those anagrams she scribbles on napkins. Her fantasies are offered as straight narrative along with a stream of wisecracks (“All the world’s a stage we’re going through”). For deep down, Benna is terrified of the contingencies of reality (“One g (more…)
Palindromes and Anagrams [Paperback]
Fascinating word-lover’s treasury brings together over 1,100 different anagrams and nearly as many palindromes, plus a host of related phenomena—charades, circular reversals, vocabularyclepts, etc., plus much high-level commentary and observation.