British novelist and literary critic Brooke-Rose created this crazy, funny fiction that deals with deconstruction, multiculturalism, and whatever is a "canon." The story is told through the eyes of a countless number of literary characters whose fates are being determined. Emma Woodhouse starts the book as she travels to a literary conference in San Francisco where academics have gathered to decide what books stay in the canon. TV characters start crashing the event at some point, demanding their own position in the mind of the all-important 'Implied Reader.' Black cloth with jacket in VG condition, very clean first edition. Carcanet. Manchester UK. 1991. Hb, Dj. USED. $50.00