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Description for Koolaids
Paperback. * A dazzling literary debut, set in the war in Lebanon and the AIDS epidemic Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 124 x 17. Weight in Grams: 174.
A dazzling literary debut, KOOLAIDS shatters the dimension of time and mimes the chaos of contemporary existence as it details the impact of the AIDS epidemic and the Lebanese civil war on a circle of family and friends.
In clips, quips, memories and hallucinations, tragic news reports and hilarious short plays, diary entries and conversations, KOOLAIDS tells the stories of a group of individuals who can no longer love or think except in fragments of time.
Their dances with death - in wartorn Beirut, with the scourge of AIDS - form a raging affirmation of life.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780349110615
SKU
V9780349110615
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Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-1
About Rabih Alameddine
Rabih Alameddine was born in Jordan of Lebanese descent. Educated in England and the United States, he has worked as an engineer and a marketing consultant and is now an artist and painter. KOOLAIDS is his first novel.
Reviews for Koolaids
A wildly imaginative tour de force - impressive, stunning
Fenton Johnson
In its unflinching refusal to bury the darkness with its postmodernist pyrotechnics, it is a camera obscura in which our miserable century can view the dumbshow of its cruel procession. This book is not to be missed.
Rick Wallach
Koolaids is the companion guide to ... Read more
Fenton Johnson
In its unflinching refusal to bury the darkness with its postmodernist pyrotechnics, it is a camera obscura in which our miserable century can view the dumbshow of its cruel procession. This book is not to be missed.
Rick Wallach
Koolaids is the companion guide to ... Read more