Ella Minnow Pea, Mark Dunn
An epistolary story, about the Island of Nollop off of the southern coast of the United States. The inhabitants are near-worship Nevin Nollop, author of the sentence 'The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.' The sentence is immortalized in town square, and as the story progressess, letter tiles fall off of the monument, and also out of use on the island of Nollop (and thus, out of the novel, as it's a series of letters written there). A cautionary tale on freedom of speech, cleverly written with a great vocabulary. Recommended, for fun.
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