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Foreign Land
by Raban, Jonathan
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0002229188
- ISBN 13
- 9780002229180
- Seller
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Wheatfield, New York, United States
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About This Item
London: Collins Harvill. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1985. First U.K. Edition. Hardcover. 0002229188 . . A Good Read ships from Toronto and Niagara Falls, NY - customers outside of North America please allow two to three weeks for delivery. ; First U.K. edition of author's first novel. Signed by the author on title page. Minor surface rubbing with some slight wearing on tips of clipped d/j. Bit of grime to top edge and faint water mark on outer edge of text block.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Signed by Author .
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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Details
- Bookseller
- A Good Read
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 690
- Title
- Foreign Land
- Author
- Raban, Jonathan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First U.K. Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0002229188
- ISBN 13
- 9780002229180
- Publisher
- Collins Harvill
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1985
- Keywords
- 0002229188
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