9780394544724 - Mating von Rush, Norman (19 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Very Good. Item in very good condition! Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

Zustand: Good. Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

Zustand: Good. 1st. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Zustand: Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. Aus Bibliothek aussortiert; Leichte Rillen / Abschürfungen / Risse / Knicke; Gebrochener Buchrücken; Starke Verschmutzung / Nässe. Had Jane Austen been in the Peace Corps in Africa in the 1980s, this novel might have been her creation. Set in Botswana before apartheid's end, it unfolds in a utopian village established by anthropologist Nelson Denoon, primarily for marginalized African women. The narrative explores the timeless question of mating dynamics, akin to Austen's themes. The unnamed protagonist, a 32-year-old anthropology postgraduate, finds herself adrift after her dissertation falters. As she navigates the expatriate scene in Gaborone, she encounters Denoon, whose charming demeanor captivates her. With her anxieties about relationships and personal hygiene, she sets off into the Kalahari Desert, drawn to his utopia, where sexual attraction, politics, and social experimentation intertwine in unexpected ways. This ambitious novel tackles feminism, socialism, political corruption, and male-female relations with both humor and depth. The narrator's unique voice, blending sophisticated vocabulary with quirky observations, enhances the narrative. For instance, when Denoon reveals the celibacy of Tsau's women, she muses on the implications, drawing parallels to Western television. The novel is notable for its wit, insight, and ability to satirize without belittling, all while delivering an engaging story that would surely impress Austen.

Hardcover. Reprint. Sixth printing. 480, [4] p. Endpaper maps. Glossary. Winner of 1991 National Book Award. THis is the author's first novel. An exciting, brilliantly funny major novel, Mating is a comedy of manners on the grandest scale. Centered around two irrestible Americans on the loose in developing Africa, the action is at once hilarious and stimulating as their courtship travels on its satisfying course, and accomplishes nothing less than turning the world inside out. Norman Rush (born October 24, 1933 in Oakland, California) is an American novelist whose introspective novels and short stories are set in Botswana in the 1980s. He is the son of Roger and Leslie (Chesse) Rush. He Rush was born in San Francisco and graduated from Swarthmore College in 1956. After working for fifteen years as a book dealer, he changed careers to become a teacher and found he had more time to write. He submitted a short story about his teaching experiences to The New Yorker, and it was published in 1978. Rush and his wife, Elsa, worked as co-workers for the Peace Corps in Botswana from 1978 to 1983, which provided material for a collection of short stories he published as Whites in 1986, and for which he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His Botswana experience was also used in his first novel, Mating, which won a National Book Award for fiction in 1991, and in his second novel, Mortals. He is married; they live in Rockland County, New York. He has two grandchildren, Angus Rush and Isis Rush. He was also the recipient of the 1992 Irish Times/Aer Lingus International Fiction Prize for his novel Mating. Set in Botswana in the early 1980s, Mating is narrated by an American graduate student in anthropology who feels a compulsion to "tell everything, " to record everything that happens to her. The result is a sprawling, complex, confessional narrative that explores the equally extraordinary inner lives and outer circumstances of its two main characters, the narrator and the man she falls in love with, Nelson Denoon. Denoon is a scourge and star academic, the author of the classic Development as the Death of Villages, who is now working on a utopian experiment: a solar-powered, egalitarian, matriarchal village deep in the Kalahari. When the narrator sets off alone across the desert to find Denoon and his highly secretive project in Tsau, she enters a world unlike any she has experienced before and finds a man more complicated and more intellectually challenging than any she has ever known. While Mating is very much a love story, exploring the shifting nuances of love with a subtlety and insight seldom encountered in American fiction, it is also a novel of great intellectual sweep that seems to comment on everything. History and politics, psychology and religion, poetry and science, economic systems and the Tao Te Ching all come within the novel's capacious purview. And it is a book that asks, and then brilliantly explores, some profoundly important questions: how can we create a just society? What is the nature of a truly equal relationship? What is the relation between past and present, the personal and the political, and between reality and the narratives used to record and represent that reality? Good. No dust jacket. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Book Award sticker on DJ front.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

hardcover. Zustand: Good. Our good condition books are generally good for reading but not for gifting or collecting. They could have imperfections such as creasing, fanning, inscriptions, margin notes, yellowing, staining on edge or cover or pages, bumps, scuffs, etc etc (sometimes multiple of these). It's a wide category that encompasses anything that isn't almost-new down to anything that is slightly better than poor. We would NOT recommend gifting Good books - these should be considered reading copies. Our books are dispatched from a Yorkshire former cotton mill. We list via barcode/ISBN so please note that the images are stock images and may not be the exact copy you receive, furthermore the details about edition and year might not be accurate as many publishers reuse the same ISBN for multiple editions and as we simply scan a barcode or enter an ISBN we do not check the validity of the edition data when listing. If you're looking for an exact edition please don't order (at least not without checking with us first, although we don't always have time to check). We aim to dispatch prompty, the service used will depend on order value and book size. We can ship to most countries, see our shipping policies. Payment is via Abe only.

First edition. An advanced sampler (32 pp.) with an excerpt from the author's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. In purple stiff paper, stapled wrappers printed in silver. The illustration (uncredited) unrelated to final book. Also, issued along with Norman Rush's MATING as a boxed set. Tiny nicks to the spine tips.

Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. New York: Knopf, 1991. Stated First Edition. Octavo (24cm); 480pp. Publisher's dust jacket with $23.00 price intact; boards quarter-bound in tan and yellow cloth with gilt stamping to front panel and spine; illustrated map endsheets. Dust jacket lightly bumped at corners and along edges; verso lightly toned. Boards bumped at spine ends; some foxing. Binding sound. Textblock shows some foxing; endsheets and interior pages clean. A Very Good or better copy of this National Book Award winner. Signed by author on full title page.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 477 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.50 inches. In Stock.