{"product_id":"amalgamemnon-christine-brooke-rose-9781564780508","title":"Amalgamemnon","description":"\u003cp\u003eA woman about to lose her job as a professor of literature and history delivers a passionate, witty, and word-mad monologue. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHistory and literature seem to be losing ground to the brave new world of electronic media and technology, and battle lines are being drawn between the humanities and technology, the first world and the third world, women and men. Narrator Mira Enketei erases those boundaries in her punning monologue, blurring the texts of Herodotus with the callers to a talk-radio program, and blending contemporary history with ancient: fairy-tale and literal\/invented people (the kidnappers of capitalism, a girl-warrior from Somalia, a pop singer, a political writer), connected by an elaborate mock-genealogy stretching back to the Greek gods, move in and out of each other's stories. The narrator sometimes sees herself as Cassandra, condemned by Apollo to prophesize but never to be believed, enslaved by Agamemnon after the fall of Troy. Brooke-Rose amalgamates ancient literature with modern crises to produce a powerful novel about the future of culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Christine Brooke-Rose\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1564780503\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781564780508\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Dalkey Archive Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/01\/1994\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 152\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.43lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.53h x 5.57w x 0.43d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/13\/1994","brand":"Christine Brooke-Rose","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43996335702271,"sku":"9781564780508","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ca7fddb6-f5d1-44f5-9186-d1582c4c092f.jpg?v=1683341099","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/amalgamemnon-christine-brooke-rose-9781564780508","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}