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This is a tale of two cities, the actual and the imagined. The author attempts to evoke the increasingly menacing atmosphere of a frontier town caught on the edge of the outback by contrasting exile and conflicting passions. The author also wrote "Emperor", "A Cruel Madness" and "Falling".
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"This transcendentally gifted writer is of course one of the two or three best living travel writers - in some ways probably the best" (Jan Morris)
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'Colin Thubron's voice is unique: once heard, difficult to forget' Anita Brookner
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ISBN 10: 0140171827
ISBN 13: 9780140171822
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Reprint; First Printing. Minor shelf wear, small crack to spine. ; Nice tight flat copy, no names or marks inside, appears unread. Cover artwork by Stephen Martin. ; 208 pages; Novel set in a mundane town on the edge of a wilderness, but tensions begin to mount when the water dries up. Seller Inventory # 25171
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Penguin Books Ltd, 1992. Paperback First thus some shelf rubbing to covers otherwise in VERY GOOD CLEAN TIGHT READING ORDER. Full refund if not satisfied. 24 hour despatch. If not pictured in this listing, a scan of the actual book is available on request. Seller Inventory # nf4675
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Paperback. Condition: Good. 203 pages. Cover wornFar away from the city of his birth, in a frontier town on the edge of tribal wilderness, a doctor tries to resolve the seemingly irreconcilable demands of h is public career and his personal feelings. He believes his exile her to be temp. Seller Inventory # 1435x
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Paperback. Condition: 1992. A good copy. "A moving lament for a vanished world and for the difficulties of human communication.a rewarding read."Â Â Â Â Â (Publishers Weekly) "Intelligent and lyrical in its evocation of life on the fringe of civilization."Â (Library Journal) Far away from the city of his birth, in a frontier town on the edge of tribal wilderness, a doctor tries to resolve the seemingly unreconcilable demands of his public career and his personal feelings. He believes his exile her to be temporary, and youthful memories of the distant city torment him with an unbearable sense of loss. Yet he has grown to love a fellow exile, a woman of fierce independence and strong will, who belongs by nature to the warmth and chaos of the frontier. But, during a summer of drought and disease, the desert erupts into savagery and he is at last confronted by the choice of returning to the city or of remaining with her. Seller Inventory # 26837687
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Turning Back the Sun
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ISBN 10: 0140171827
ISBN 13: 9780140171822
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Penguin Edition. Paperback. 'The action takes place in an unnamed, invented town on the edge of the wilderness. The town is ordinary, prositively dull. But there is no water and the tension mounts.' (Daily Telegraph). 204 pp. ( We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.). Seller Inventory # 065411
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Couverture souple. Condition: bon. RO60142216: 1992. In-8. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur acceptable. 203 pages. Annotation au feutre sur la tranche. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon. Seller Inventory # RO60142216
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