{"product_id":"tlooth-9781628976755","title":"Tlooth","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA \"comic extravaganza\" (\u003cem\u003eWashington Post Book World\u003c\/em\u003e) from one of the most acclaimed voices in American avant-garde literature, \u003cem\u003eTlooth\u003c\/em\u003e follows its narrator on a fantastical, globe-trotting quest for revenge.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eOpening on a baseball game in a Siberian prison camp, Harry Mathews's \u003cem\u003eTlooth\u003c\/em\u003e is absurdist from the jump.  The narrator, a three-fingered dental assistant who escapes from Russia to find the criminal surgeon who took the other two fingers, treks across half the world--from Kabul to Venice to Milan to India to Morocco to Rome to France--in pursuit of revenge. From page to outrageous page, Mathews constructs a labyrinth of language, rife with the arcane puzzles, mesmerizing digressions, and nested stories that would become hallmarks of his oeuvre.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Dalkey Archive Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/17\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781628976755\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 200","brand":"Harry Mathews","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53376030474421,"sku":"9781628976755","price":16.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/9781628976755.jpg?v=1790261113","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/tlooth-9781628976755","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}