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Synopsis
Inni Wintrop, a wealthy dilettante, meets Arnold and Philip Taads, estranged father and son, who have each adopted a unique routine to make their lives rigidly consistent
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'Sharp, elegant prose ... It recalls, in tone, Vladimir Nabokov. The language is, by turns, delicately allusive and rich, even ripely comic' D.J. Enright, T.L.S. (TLS)
'Should appeal to anyone who likes Italo Calvino or Paul Auster' Michael Dirda, Washington Times. (Washington Times)
About the Author
Cees Nooteboom was born in The Hague in 1933, and now lives in Amsterdam and on the island of Minorca. He is a poet, a novelist and a travel writer whose books include Rituals (1983), The Following Story (1994), Roads to Santiago (1997) and All Souls' Day (2001).
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- PublisherLouisiana State University Press
- Publication date1983
- ISBN 10 0807110817
- ISBN 13 9780807110812
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages145
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Rituals [Signed Bookplate laid in]
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Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University, 1983. First English-Language Edition. Octavo (22.3cm); [xii], 145pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $12.95 price intact; boards in beige cloth with blue lettering to spine. Jacket rubbed along top edge with a flattened crease to rear flap, sunning to spine, and light foxing to verso. Boards are square and sharp with light shelfwear. Light foxing to endpapers. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Bookplate signed by Nooteboom loosely laid in. The Dutch author's fourth novel, but the first translated into English, for which he won the Ferdinand Bordewijk Prize and the Pegasus Prize. Basis for the 1989 film of the same name directed by Herbert Curiel. Seller Inventory # 30328
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