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From Jonathan Raban, the award--winning author of Bad Land""and""Passage to Juneau, comes this quirky and insightful story of what can happen when one can and does go home again.
For the past thirty years, George Grey has been a ship bunker in the fictional west African nation of Montedor, but now he's returning home to England-to a daughter who's a famous author he barely knows, to a peculiar new friend who back in the sixties was one of England's more famous singers, and to the long and empty days of retirement during which he's easy prey to the melancholy of memories, all the more acute since the woman he loves is still back in Africa. Witty, charming and masterly crafted, ""Foreign Land""is an exquisitely moving tale of awkward relationships and quiet redemption.
For the past thirty years, George Grey has been a ship bunker in the fictional west African nation of Montedor, but now he's returning home to England-to a daughter who's a famous author he barely knows, to a peculiar new friend who back in the sixties was one of England's more famous singers, and to the long and empty days of retirement during which he's easy prey to the melancholy of memories, all the more acute since the woman he loves is still back in Africa. Witty, charming and masterly crafted, ""Foreign Land""is an exquisitely moving tale of awkward relationships and quiet redemption.
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"Jonathan Raban's achievements in this novel are nothing short of awesome."
--"The Washington Post"
"Raban has a wonderful gift...These characters seem to index an entire civilization."
--"The Village Voice Literary Supplement
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"Raban is a first-rate observer, with an eye for the ridiculous and a gift for the sudden pounce."
--"Newsday
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--"The Washington Post"
"Raban has a wonderful gift...These characters seem to index an entire civilization."
--"The Village Voice Literary Supplement
"
"Raban is a first-rate observer, with an eye for the ridiculous and a gift for the sudden pounce."
--"Newsday
"
Raban's first novel, an engrossing account of what it can mean to return home
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- PublisherUlverscroft Large Print Books Ltd
- Publication date1986
- ISBN 10 0708983472
- ISBN 13 9780708983478
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages512
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