Foreign Land: a Novel (Picador Books)
by Raban, Jonathan
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- Paperback
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0330292307
- ISBN 13
- 9780330292306
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Synopsis
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.From the Trade Paperback edition.
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- Powell's Bookstores Chicago (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SOL16025
- Title
- Foreign Land: a Novel (Picador Books)
- Author
- Raban, Jonathan
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0330292307
- ISBN 13
- 9780330292306
- Publisher
- Picador
- Place of Publication
- London
- This edition first published
- July 25, 1986
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