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“A superb novel, hypnotic, disturbing and artful ... The writing throughout is masterly ... almost any sentence may be shot through with wonderful phrases bright as tracer bullets.”
WASHINGTON POST
“A strange surrealistic tale of shipwreck told in prose at once as dense and flowing as the sea itself ... a chilling book, beautifully written ... The descriptions of life on the island are as vivid as anything in the 'genre', the terrors depicted every bit as effective as those in 'Lord of the Flies'.
SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY
“Marianne Wiggins’s novel, set in Burma in 1918, is not about the end of empire but about the end of hope, innocence, meaning and reason ... Wiggins does not so much tell a story as make her readers live it ... she renews our sense of what prose fiction can do.”
SUNDAY TIMES
“The events have at once a sharp reality and the elusiveness of dreams ... a glittering, violent and surreal tale ... Her fiction is a work of high ambition.”
SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
“A powerful story that not only pulls you through to its final pages but also propels you back to the beginning again, where you find you want to follow her descent into hell a second time.”
NEW YORK TIMES
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. Seller Inventory # 6545-9780436570803
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Book Description Hardback. Condition: VERY GOOD. 1st Edition. 1989. Secker and Warburg. First. Book-VG. DJ-VG, slight edgewear, minimally rubbed. 9.5x6.5. 234pp. Seller Inventory # 366335
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 234 pages, colour illustrated dust jacket, front folder price clipped, the spine and either side of the backstrip section of the jacket have been faded by the sun. This book concerns the life of young, newly widowed by World War I, deeply unhappy, Charlotte Lewis. She decides to travel to Rangoon in 1918 to try to escape the chaos of her old life. There she becomes a schoolteacher in Burma and begins to feel at home imbibing the spirituality of Buddhist temples and monks and living in a house on stilts near the bay to the colonial compound. There she meets and falls passionately in love with a sailor, John Dollar, and the course of her life again changes drastically as she joins in his ill-fated destiny. Size: 4to 9¾" - 12" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Fiction; ISBN: 0436570807. ISBN/EAN: 9780436570803. Inventory No: 0209489. Seller Inventory # 0209489
Book Description 1st edition, hardback, 8vo, 234pp, owner's name on endpaper, edges browning, text clean and sound, Very Good / Good dustwrapper, wrapper unevenly faded, not price-clipped. ISBN: 0436570807. Seller Inventory # 31695
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 234 pp. A memorable, hard-hitting and shocking novel set in Rangoon in 1918. Seller Inventory # 9427