| Foreign Land 1982 Edition Contributor(s): Raban, Jonathan (Author) |
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ISBN: 0375725946 ISBN-13: 9780375725944 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $14.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2001 Annotation: From Jonathan Raban, the award--winning author of Bad Land" and" Passage to Juneau, comes this quirky and insightful story of what can happen when one can and does go home again. For the past thirty years, George Grey has been a ship bunker in the fictional west African nation of Montedor, but now he's returning home to England-to a daughter who's a famous author he barely knows, to a peculiar new friend who back in the sixties was one of England's more famous singers, and to the long and empty days of retirement during which he's easy prey to the melancholy of memories, all the more acute since the woman he loves is still back in Africa. Witty, charming and masterly crafted," Foreign Land" is an exquisitely moving tale of awkward relationships and quiet redemption. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2001035027 |
| Series: Vintage Departures |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.21" W x 8.06" (0.61 lbs) 352 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: From Jonathan Raban, the award--winning author of Bad Land and Passage to Juneau, comes this quirky and insightful story of what can happen when one can and does go home again. For the past thirty years, George Grey has been a ship bunker in the fictional west African nation of Montedor, but now he's returning home to England-to a daughter who's a famous author he barely knows, to a peculiar new friend who back in the sixties was one of England's more famous singers, and to the long and empty days of retirement during which he's easy prey to the melancholy of memories, all the more acute since the woman he loves is still back in Africa. Witty, charming and masterly crafted, Foreign Land is an exquisitely moving tale of awkward relationships and quiet redemption. |