Walter Abish

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  • Bibliography:
    7 Books
  • First Book:
    June 1974
  • Latest Book:
    May 1993
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Books in Order: 7 titles

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  • Eclipse Fever

    While Mexican literary critic Alejandro longs for Mercedes, his estranged and unfaithful wife, Bonnie, the daughter of Mercedes' lover, witnesses a murder, and Preston, an American industrialist, and his wife deal with an unscrupulous art dealer...

  • 99: The New Meaning

    Fiction. Art. Five collage textswith six photographs by Cecile Abish. The five stories that make up 99: THE NEW MEANING are created entirely from fragments of other works. From Abish's introduction: "These works were undertaken in a playful spirit no...

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  • How German Is It?

    Ulrich Hargenau testifies against fellow members of a German terrorist group in order to save himself and his wife, Paula, and contemplates the nature of his German heritage. The question How German Is It underlies the conduct and actions o...

  • In the Future Perfect

  • Minds Meet

  • Alphabetical Africa

    An extraordinary linguistic tour de force that “prankishly takes the reader on an intricate trek through the alphabet” (John Updike, The New Yorker)

    “Are all archaeologists arrogant Aristotelians, asks author, as Angolans abduct Alva. Ad...



Award-Winning Books by Walter Abish

How German Is It?
1980 PEN/Faulkner Award -- Fiction


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Walter Abish has published 7 books.

Walter Abish does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Eclipse Fever, was published in May 1993.

The first book by Walter Abish, Alphabetical Africa, was published in June 1974.

No. Walter Abish does not write books in series.
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