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Theroux, Joseph
by Black Coconuts, Brown Magic
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- Hardcover
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- ISBN 10
- 0385279477
- ISBN 13
- 9780385279475
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About This Item
New York. 1983. Dial Press. 1st Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket. 0385279477. 227 pages. hardcover. . keywords: Literature America . FROM THE PUBLISHER - BLACK COCONUTS, BROWN MAGIC is a first novel by Joseph Theroux, set in the fallen paradise of Samoa. Silas Wicklowe, once a medic in Vietnam, is now a doctor on a three-month assignment at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Tropical Medical Center in Pago Pago. Wicklowe carries a double burden. Born in American Samoa, the son of a naval officer, he has returned to paradise to uncover the mysteries surrounding his dead mother and father. He's also running from his former wife. His war experience has made him impotent, thrown him into a kind of psychic fatigue. He suffers from what the Samoans call ''spirit sickness.'' He screams in the night and walks around with dead eyes. He has the Vietnam blues. inventory #4577 ISBN: 0385279477.
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- Bookseller
- Zeno's (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4577
- Title
- Theroux, Joseph
- Author
- Black Coconuts, Brown Magic
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0385279477
- ISBN 13
- 9780385279475
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 1983-10
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