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A young Japanese seaman, trained in the way of the samurai but inspired by America, jumps ship off the Georgia coast and ends up in a writer's colony, in a dark comedy of clashing manners, mistaken identity, and love
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'A high-adrenalin story packed with more wit and invention in a single paragraph than many a respected English novel' Independent 'Hilarious. A talented entertainer with a beady eye for the absurdities of culture shock' Guardian 'Boyle has a fine descriptive eye and peoples the novel with wonderfully absurd characters' Time Out
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T. Corahessan Boyle is the author of three collections of short stories - Descent of Man, Greasy Lake and If the River was Whiskey - and three novels - Water Music, Budding Prospects and World's End, which won the 1988 PEN/Faulkner Award. Born in New York's Hudson Valley, he now lives in Los Angeles.
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- PublisherViking
- Publication date1990
- ISBN 10 0670832200
- ISBN 13 9780670832200
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages384
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