A Fool's Alphabet

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A Fool's Alphabet
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First edition
Author Sebastian Faulks
LanguageEnglish
Published1992 (Hutchinson)
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint (Hardback)
Pages288 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:

References

  1. Rennison, Nick (2004). Contemporary British Novelists. Taylor & Francis. p. 53. ISBN   9781134604708.
  2. "A FOOL'S ALPHABET". Kirkus Reviews. 19 May 2010.
  3. Gaisford, Sue (15 July 1992). "BOOK REVIEW / Around the world with letters of introduction: A Fool's Alphabet - Sebastian Faulks". The Independent. Retrieved 21 July 2025.