Kangaroo notebook
a novel
1st U.S. ed
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Author
Contributions
- Mori, Maryellen Toman - Contributor
Publication
1996 - Knopf, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
45,750 words, Guess
Page Count
183 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL16836696M
- ISBN-100679424121
- OCLC Control Number34663956
- Library of Congress Control Number96075388
- Goodreads1430937
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- LibraryThing131037
Classifications
- LCCPL845.B4 K3513 1991
- DDC895.6/35
- LCCPL845.B4 K3513 1997
Alternate Titles
- Kangaru noto
Description
At breakfast one morning, the narrator of Kangaroo Notebook discovers to his horror that what appear to be radish sprouts are growing out of his shins. Thus begins Kobo Abe's strange and wonderful last novel, completed not long before his death in 1993, and set in a skewed version of modern urban Japan. Funny and terrifying by turns, it is the story of an ordinary man in the grip of bizarre and thoroughly extraordinary forces - a self-propelled hospital bed that takes him literally to the edge of hell, doctors eager to cure the wrong ailments, mysterious windstorms, a nurse devoted to taking blood (her monthly quota is about three quarts), infant ghosts, and an American known as Master Hammer Killer who is making a film called Fatal Accidents.
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