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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Paperback. Previous owner's name inside front cover. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers show very minor shelving wear, rubbing to corners.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day.

Zustand: Very Good. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDGood. Boards soiled. Tips bumped. Remainder mark on bottom edge. First edition *.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good with good to very good dust jacket. Book and dust jacket are bumped at top of spine. Dust jacket is stained at inside spine tips and is bumped at top edges. 156 pages.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. Very good: Book shows slight rubbing of spine and panel edges.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Near Fine. First edition. 156pp. Slightly cocked spine else near fine in a very good dust jacket with tears and creasing.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First edition. Fine in very good dust jacket. Solid hardcover in dust jacket with a few light folds, small nicks along edges of dust jacket.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Near Fine. First edition. Fine in near fine dust jacket with some light wear to the ends of the spine.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Near Fine. First edition. 156pp. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket with some edgewear.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Monrovia. Bali. Bombay. Cayman Islands. Hollywood. The names of faraway places dot the pages of Queer and Alone like thousands of islands in a deep blue sea. Indeed, the hero - or is he an ironic anti-hero - of this novel is a man literally at sea. He is Desmond Farrquahr who boards a steamer bound for Hong Kong by way of the Cape of Good Hope. Looking for experience, taking in the sights, hoping. For what Queer and Alone is a wildly exuberant travelogue as monologue, an eccentric American's view of tourism. One might call it a 'scatalogical romance,' with a story and a girl in every port. 'It's all part of the novel experience of being there,' Farrquahr wordplays with the reader. As narrator of the novel he shows off incredibly sly linguistic gifts that turn even the slightest image or sound into the dazzling rhythms of word magic. Whether it's describing racial fantasy films in Africa, investigating murder in Bombay, or seducing stately women in staterooms, Farrquahr manages to have the most ingenious takes on culture. In one of the most funny scenes in the novel the narrator is seen eating several (dis)courses of a chopstick dinner that makes the ideologies of both East and West seem like entangled sesame noodles. Tourism moves closer to zany anthopology whenever Farrquahr acts as guide. Desmond Farrquahr is a very queer fellow if judged by any conventional standards. But isn't the world itself a queer place these days.…

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