| The Year of the Hare Contributor(s): Paasilinna, Arto (Author), Iyer, Pico (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 0143117920 ISBN-13: 9780143117926 Publisher: Penguin Books OUR PRICE: $14.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Humorous - General - Fiction | Psychological |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2010035411 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5" W x 7.6" (0.35 lbs) 208 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: An internationally bestselling comic novel in which a man--with the help of a bunny--suddenly realizes what's important in life "Escapism at its best . . . Just pure fun." --NPR.org "Which of us has not had that wonderfully seditious idea: to play hooky for a while from life as we know it?" With these words from his foreword, Pico Iyer puts his finger on the exhilaratingly anarchic appeal of The Year of the Hare, a novel in the bestselling tradition of Watership Down, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, and Life of Pi. While out on assignment, a journalist hits a hare with his car. This small incident becomes life-changing: he decides to quit his job, leave his wife, sell his possessions, and spend a year wandering the wilds of Finland--with the bunny as his boon companion. What ensues is a series of comic misadventures, as everywhere they go--whether chased up a tree by dogs, or to a formal state dinner, or in pursuit of a bear across the Finnish border with Russia--they leave mayhem (and laughter ) in their wake. |