HISTORIC OFFER. PRE-PUB DATE: JAN 15, 2006 Lamore’s novel, written mostly in a working class suburb of Paris, and the product of 6 years of intense and wildly eclectic research ranging from African geo-politics to ornithology (Lamore\\\'s father is an expert on rare birds) has been compared to Anthony Burgess’s Clockwork Orange, Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow, and Danté’s Purgatory. Aside from a short excerpt published in FRANK’s recent issue of Expat Writing, the work has been kept from public view. AKA by Jean Lamore is one of the most innovative and thought-provoking novels to emerge so far in the 21st century. Set in Paris, New York, and diverse parts of Africa, AKA is a rambunctious romp through almost everything we know about both life and language. Both upsetting and amusing at once in the best sense of both words. FRANK, Paris’s longest running anglophone literary journal, has been publishing cutting-edge fiction, poetry, and visual art since the early 1980s in the great tradition of expat avant-garde publishing. The first 299 readers to reserve a copy will receive a numbered and signed copy from a first limited edition.

Expat Literary Publisher in Paris Finds Next Joyce ... Paris, France, 10 Dec. 2005 -— Paris’s longest running expat literary journal, FRANK, has unearthed the next James Joyce, a little-known but amazing Franco-American writer and sculptor named Jean Lamore. FRANK has announced that it will bring out Lamore’s elaborate 421 page novel AKA in October 2004, following a campaign to get the word out. According to FRANK’s editorial board and confirmed by several literary critics, including Linda Lappin of Poet’s and Writers, AKA could be as significant to 21st century literature as Joyce’s Ulysees was to the 20th century. FRANK, which has published around 1200 writers, poets, and artists in Paris since its inception in the early 80s, and is known for its eclectism and strong commitment to internationalism, has announced that it is devoting all of its available resources to successfully publish AKA. At the heart of the effort is the publishers direct appeal to visionary readers to support serious and difficult writing by reserving a copy on the FRANK website. “Essentially, we are asking thoughtful readers around the world to take a risk and pre-order ‘sight-unseen’ a signed and numbered copy of what we think is the most exciting innovation in contemporary fiction today,“ the FRANK editorial board states on www.readfrank.com. The editor, known for his commitment to unorthodox and ground-breaking writing from around the world, asks readers to ask themselves: “Would you have said yes to an offer from Sylvia Beech to purchase a copy of Joyce’s Ulysees in 1922? We like to think we would. Here is such an opportunity. -more- NEXT JOYCE For additional information or to request an interview with the author, contact: David Applefield, Editor # # #

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