The Asiatics - Softcover

Prokosch, Frederic

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0374517673 ISBN 13: 9780374517670

Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1983

Synopsis

A young American hitchhiker travels across Asia in search of adventure and encounters a variety of remarkable people

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Review:

"Prokosch has invented what might be called the geographical novel, in which he mingles sensuality with irony, lucidity with mystery. He conveys a fatalistic sense of life half hidden beneath a rich animal energy. He is a master of moods and undertones, a virtuoso in the feeling of place, and he writes in a style of supple elegance." --Albert Camus
""The Asiatics" is original in its conception, beautiful in its execution. It belongs with the most notable modern American books. " --Carl Van Doren

Prokosch has invented what might be called the geographical novel, in which he mingles sensuality with irony, lucidity with mystery. He conveys a fatalistic sense of life half hidden beneath a rich animal energy. He is a master of moods and undertones, a virtuoso in the feeling of place, and he writes in a style of supple elegance. "Albert Camus"

"The Asiatics" is original in its conception, beautiful in its execution. It belongs with the most notable modern American books. "Carl Van Doren""

"Prokosch has invented what might be called the geographical novel, in which he mingles sensuality with irony, lucidity with mystery. He conveys a fatalistic sense of life half hidden beneath a rich animal energy. He is a master of moods and undertones, a virtuoso in the feeling of place, and he writes in a style of supple elegance." --Albert Camus

"The Asiatics is original in its conception, beautiful in its execution. It belongs with the most notable modern American books. " --Carl Van Doren

About the Author:

Frederic Prokosch (1908-89) was a distinguished American poet and novelist of the 1930s and 1940s. Among his other novels are The Seven Who Fled (1937) and Night of the Poor.

Pico Iyer is the author of several books of travel and fiction, including Video Night in Kathmandu.

About this edition

• Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
• Publication date: 1983
• ISBN 10: 0374517673
• ISBN 13: 9780374517670
• Binding: Paperback