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Foreign Land
by Jonathan Raban,
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- NEAR FINE (NEAR BRAND NEW)/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0330292307
- ISBN 13
- 9780330292306
- Seller
-
Peter Tavy, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, United Kingdom: Pan Books / Picador , 1986. His First Novel, George abroad for Forty Years returns to england to find it nothing like his vision of it , So he plans to Escape to sea in his own boat. . A VERY Nice copy. 353pp. Not Inscribed or Signed. This a First Edition Reprint . Trade Paperback. NEAR FINE (NEAR BRAND NEW)/No Jacket. Illus. by Cover Art By John Schueler . TRADE PAPERBACK. Trade Paperback.
Synopsis
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.From the Trade Paperback edition.
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- Bookseller
- Bookfarm
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004795
- Title
- Foreign Land
- Author
- Jonathan Raban,
- Illustrator
- Cover Art By John Schueler
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- New NEAR FINE (NEAR BRAND NEW)
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- This a First Edition Reprint
- ISBN 10
- 0330292307
- ISBN 13
- 9780330292306
- Publisher
- Pan Books / Picador
- Place of Publication
- London, United Kingdom
- Date Published
- 1986
- Keywords
- FICTION GENERAL
- Bookseller catalogs
- Topograpical; Social History; Transport and Motoring; Autobiography; Research;
- Size
- TRADE PAPERBACK
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