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Exiles in the Garden
Contributor(s): Just, Ward (Author)
ISBN: 0547336012     ISBN-13: 9780547336015
Publisher: Mariner Books
OUR PRICE:   $18.00  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: July 2010
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BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | War & Military
- Fiction | Women
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 2010525290
Physical Information: 0.69" H x 5.84" W x 8.32" (0.58 lbs) 288 pages
 
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Publisher Description:
"A master American novelist." --Vanity Fair

"One of the most astute writers of American fiction" (New York Times Book Review) delivers the resonant story of Alec Malone, a senator's son who rejects the family business of politics for a career as a newspaper photographer. Alec and his Swiss wife, Lucia, settle in Georgetown next door to a couple whose migr gatherings in their garden remind Lucia of all the things Americans are not. She leaves Alec as his career founders on his refusal of an assignment to cover the Vietnam War -- a slyly subversive fictional choice from Ward Just, who was himself a renowned war correspondent. At the center of the novel is Alec's unforeseen reckoning with Lucia's long-absent father, Andre Duran, a Czech living out the end of his life in a hostel called Goya House. Duran's career as an adventurer and antifascist commando is everything Alec's is not. The encounter forces Alec to confront just how different a life where things -- "terrible things, terrible things" -- happen is from a life where nothing much happens at all.
Once again, "Ward Just writes the kind of books they say no one writes anymore: smart, well-crafted narratives -- wise to the ways of the world -- that use fiction to show us how we live" (Joseph Kanon, Los Angeles Times).


Contributor Bio(s): Just, Ward: - WARD JUST's novels include Exiles in the Garden, Forgetfulness, the National Book Award finalist Echo House, A Dangerous Friend, winner of the Cooper Prize for fiction from the Society of American Historians, and An Unfinished Season, winner of the Chicago Tribune Heartland Award and a finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize.