Out of the Loud Hound of Darkness: A Dictionarrative

by Karen Elizabeth Gordon

Book Overview

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...

• 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

Out of the Loud Hound of Darkness

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

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!

Great

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.