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The Adventures of God in His Search for the Black Girl
About this book
'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. Consistent with her commitment to artifice and the rococo, Brophy believes in play... [She] is liveliest when speaking-or making the illustrious dead speak-of the life of art, of literature, music, architecture, which she thinks about a lot and knows a lot about.'
Washington Post
'Tasty and nutritious... generally wise and witty... full of game-playing... Brigid Brophy remains a good though very British writer-balanced, erudite, sensible, unsubmissive to shrill sociological shibboleths, above all
unscared.' Anthony Burgess
, New York Times Book Review
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Landing Page
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- The Singularly Ugly Princess
- A Literary History
- Sources
- Homo Sapiens
- An Anecdote of the Golden Age
- Trade Follows the Flag
- Democracy
- Variations on Themes of Elgar and Brahms
- The Sage on the Commonest Crime
- Documentary
- The Honest Bluebeard
- The Two Emperors
- The Pasiphaïst Version
- The Sage on Democracy
- Disjecta Membra
- Classic Detective Story
- Scene from Suburban Life
- The Hypocrite Saga
- Wishes
- The Woodcutter’s Upright Son
- The Adventures of God in his Search for the Black Girl
- Epilogue
- Copyright