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A renowned American anthropologist, his much younger wife, and a young drifter form a dangerous and passionate triangle, in a story of love and tragedy set against the exotic backdrop of the Melanesian island of Vanduu. By the author of Half a Life. 17,500 first printing.
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<b>Jill Ciment</b> is the author of <i>Half a Life, The Law of Falling Bodies,</i> and <i>Small Claims.</i> She has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Foundation for the Arts and teaches at Columbia University.
Jill Ciment teaches at Columbia University.
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f the critically hailed <i>Half a Life</i> steps boldly into world-class literary territory with this tightly structured yet richly expansive literary thriller that will call to mind the work of Graham Greene and Paul Bowles's <i>The Sheltering Sky.</i><br><br>Thomas, a renowned American anthropologist, his much younger wife Helene, and Finster, a young, culturally shipwrecked AMR (American mercantile riffraff), as he's known locally, enact a tense personal drama of love and tragedy against the much larger historical drama of the Melanesian island of Vanduu, a steaming crucible where East and West, fundamentalist piety and free market fire, decay and sterility augur the future of the world.<br> <br>Helene has lured Thomas to Vanduu in the desperate hope that its tropical splendor can miraculously heal the fracture that has cleaved their lives: Thomas's health is failing, and Helene simply can't accept that she might lose him. Unabl
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- VerlagCrown Pub
- Erscheinungsdatum1999
- ISBN 10 0517702029
- ISBN 13 9780517702024
- EinbandTapa dura
- SpracheEnglisch
- Anzahl der Seiten216
- Kontakt zum HerstellerNicht verfügbar
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