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Xorandor by Christine Brooke-Rose Review by S. D. Stewart Jipnzab are precocious preteen twins living in Cornwall, England. Zab is short for Isabel and Jip is short for John Ivor Paul. They largely think in terms of computer programming logic, with some intermittent squabbling over the relevance of emotion, and they carry around their Poccom Estimated Reading Time: 5 mins. Xorandor (Paladin Books) by Brooke-Rose, Christine and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at www.doorway.ru Xorandor (Paladin Books) by Christine Brooke-Rose and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at www.doorway.ru

Christine Brooke-Rose taught at the University of Paris and is the author of Amalgamemnon, Textermination, Verbivore, and Xorandor. Product details Publisher ‏: ‎ Carcanet Press Ltd.; n edition (April 1, ). Christine Brooke-Rose. British experimental novelist and scholar Christine Brooke-Rose was born in into a trilingual household in Geneva and raised in Brussels and Britain. During World War II, she helped decode intercepted German messages. She earned a BA and an MA at Oxford University and a PhD at University College London. The following three novels, Xorandor. Christine Brooke-Rose's savagely comic novel-of-novels "Textermination" takes place at a conference not of academics but of characters out of great works of literature. They convene at the San Francisco Hilton to seminar and pray - pray for their continued survival in readers': Christine Brooke-Rose.

Christine Brooke-Rose was born in Geneva, Switzerland to an English father, Alfred Northbrook Rose, and American- Swiss mother, Evelyn (née Brooke). They separated in She was brought up mainly in Brussels with her maternal grandparents, and studied at Somerville College, Oxford and University College, London. Xorandor () is a novel by Christine Brooke-Rose (). Jip and Zab are preteen twins who speak a weird, unfamiliar slang and meet up with a talking rock that turns out to be a foreign lifeform from Mars, which they dub Xorandor. They communicate with it using a programming language somewhat akin to BASIC, and they discover it can consume radiation particles. Christine Frances Evelyn Brooke-Rose was a British writer and literary critic, known principally for her later, experimental novels. Born in Geneva and educated at Somerville College, Oxford and University College, London, she taught at the University of Paris, Vincennes, from to and lived for many years in the south of France.