First edition | |
Author | Sebastian Faulks |
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Language | English |
Published | 1992 (Hutchinson) |
Publication place | United Kingdom |
Media type | Print (Hardback) |
Pages | 288 pp |
ISBN | 0-09-177299-0 |
OCLC | 26300769 |
823/.914 20 | |
LC Class | PR6056.A89 F66 1992 |
A Fool's Alphabet is a 1992 novel by author Sebastian Faulks, telling the story of photographer Pietro Russell, born in 1950 to a British soldier and his Italian wife, in twenty-six alphabetical chapters.
It is Faulks's second novel and his most experimental. [1] It is unusual for being composed of chapters named after places associated with the character but arranged alphabetically rather than chronologically. [2] The title is taken from the joke alphabet that begins "A for 'orses, B for mutton". [3]
The chapters and locations are as follows: