books.google.com.au - -- First paperback edition.-- In this madcap metafictional mystery a 22-year-old philosophy student (Hortense) is kidnapped and a dog is murdered -- the imaginary country of Poldevia is somehow involved. Arranged in the form of a sestina (replete with authorial asides and plenty of puns, jokes and wordplay),...http://books.google.com.au/books/about/Hortense_Is_Abducted.html?id=HxpLOl_gwNgC&q=hand&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareHortense Is Abducted
