A Season in Paradise
by Breyten Breytenbach
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0892550406
- ISBN 13
- 9780892550401
- Seller
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Cottage Grove, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Hard-to-find first American edition. Tight, uncreased spine. Clean, unmarked text block. Very minor shelf-wear. Design by Peter McKenzie. Cover design by Blanche Nonoo. 'A Season in Paradise, ' writes Andrei Codrescu, 'is a journey unlike anything in literature unless one digs back to Dante's travelog through the nine circles or Homer's mist-wrapped Odyssey. A spiritual journey, an earthly travelog, a poet's chronicle of his soul, the mythic biography of a country, an exotic picture album, a revolutionary treatise, a wrenching lament for a dying species, the book is all of these.' 291 pp. Biography.
Synopsis
Breytenbach's first visit to South Africa, after thirteen years in exile, is more than just a dazzling travelogue. He is searching for a "paradise" that coincides with the geography, mysticism, and mythologies of Africa, but in reality his homeland is an often hellish region of racial discrimination and bigotry. Introduction by André Brink. Translated by Rike Vaughan.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Goodbar Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 930359
- Title
- A Season in Paradise
- Author
- Breyten Breytenbach
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st American Ed.
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0892550406
- ISBN 13
- 9780892550401
- Publisher
- Persea Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1980
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- Text Block
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....