Isbn: 9780679406228 - mortals: a novel (22 Ergebnisse)

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hardcover. Zustand: Fine copy in fine dust jacket. 1st. 8vo, 715 pp.

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dj. First Edition. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. The second novel from Rush whose first novel "Mating" won the National Book Award. A review copy with laid in publisher slip and sheet. A very near fine copy in a very near fine dust jacket.

Zustand: FINE. First printing. The second novel by the author the National Book Award winning "Mating." Set in Botswana in southern Africa in the mid 1990s, this chronicles the misadventures of three American expats. Glossary. 715 pp. Map endpapers. Fine in fine dust jacket.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. First printing. Hardbound. Fine/Fine. A tight clean copy. Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket cover (not price-clipped, of course). Shipped in well-padded box.

Hardcover. Zustand: As New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: As New. 1st Edition. Stated First Edition. 715pp. Bright, clean & tight copy, unread, in AS NEW condition. [I include gratis the paperback ARC of Rush's 2013 novel Subtle Bodies.] MORTALS: "From the beginning, the tone of Rush's eagerly awaited new novel is edgy and febrile--a harbinger of the unsettling events that will ensue. Ray Finch, a Milton scholar who teaches in a small secondary school in Botswana during the 1990s, is having an identity crisis. After many years as an undercover CIA agent, he has lost his emotional equilibrium, and he's strung out with suspicion and fear. Is his adored wife, Iris, on the verge of an affair? What's with Iris's warm relationship with the brother Ray despises--gay, witty Rex? How long can Ray suppress his growing disillusionment with the agency's arrogant and ruthless methods? When Ray's chief sends him into the interior to hunt down the idealistic leader of a fledgling rebellion, Ray's fears transmogrify into living nightmares, and the novel, already a textured, erotic portrait of a disintegrating marriage and a society in flux, becomes a political thriller infused with violence. Ray is acutely aware of the cultural dissonance introduced by Western society. According to Iris's lover, a black American doctor, Christianity has wrecked Africa; the AIDS epidemic threatens another kind of destruction; and idealistic attempts at reform are doomed to failure (the Denoons, from Rush's prize-winning novel, Mating, show up here, their crusading ardor much diminished). The decadent excesses of rich Americans compared with the disciplined simplicity of life in Botswana add an element of satire. Rush's attempts to meld political reality with domestic tragicomedy occasionally make the narrative unwieldy, and suspense is sometimes fractured during the action sequences in the desert as Ray's inner turmoil spins into tortured mental riffs. Still, the richness of Rush's vision, and its stringent moral clarity, sweep the reader into his brilliantly observed world."--Publishers Weekly. "Marvelous. One wants to call Rush the best writer of his generation, but one imagines that he would reject the category . . . As with any great novel, one wonders how the seamless conjuring--the amazing precision and playfulness of the voice, the flashing river of thoughts and insights and formulations and feelings--was accomplished. The voice is an end in itself, above and beyond the Graham Greene-ish satisfactions of the plot."--John Homans, New York Magazine. "An astonishing accomplishment . . . a 700-page detonation of talent that threatens to incinerate competitors for miles around."--Ron Charles, The Christian Science Monitor. + SUBTLE BODIES, described as "a sophisticated romp through the tribulations and particular joys of marriage and friendship as a group of college friends reunites 20-some years after graduation. A novel filled with unexpected, funny, telling apercus, alongside a deeper, moving exploration of the meanings of life." MORTALS is a pristine hardcover w/brilliant corners & crisp deckle edges, a square & tight binding, wrapped in a bright & sharp jacket illustrated w/a detail from H. Bosch. ARC of Subtle Bodies is clean & unread, binding square & tight w/no creases in spine.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. First printing. Hardbound. Fine/Fine. A tight unread copy (with slight bruise to corners). Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket cover (not price-clipped, of course). Shipped in well-padded box. Purchased new and opened only for author to sign, no inscriptions, just the author's name directly on the title page. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Signed by Author(s).…

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Couverture rigide. Zustand: bon. RO60068591: 2003. In-8. Relié. Etat d'usage, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 715 pages. Petite tache sur la tranche de tête. Avec Jaquette. . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon.

Hardcover. Zustand: As New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: As New. 1st Edition. First printing. Very Fine in a very fine dust jacket. A tight, clean copy, new and unread. Comes with archival-quality dust jacket protector. NOT price clipped. Shipped in well padded box. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page--the author's name only, with no other marks or writing. Purchased new and opened only for author signature. You cannot find a better copy. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Zustand: New. The greatly anticipated new novel by Norman Rush?whose first novel,Mating, won the National Book Award and was everywhere acclaimed?is his richest work yet. It is at once a political adventure, a social comedy, and a passionate triangle. It is set in the 1990s in Botswana?the African country Rush has indelibly made his own fictional territory. Mortalschronicles the misadventures of three ex-pat Americans: Ray Finch, a contract CIA agent, operating undercover as an English instructor in a private school, who is setting out on perhaps his most difficult assignment; his beautiful but slightly foolish and disaffected wife, Iris, with whom he is obsessively in love; and Davis Morel, an iconoclastic black holistic physician, who is on a personal mission to ?lift the yoke of Christian belief from Africa.? The passions of these three entangle them with a local populist leader, Samuel Kerekang, whose purposes are grotesquely misconstrued by the CIA, fixated as the agency is on the astonishing collapse of world socialism and the simultaneous, paradoxical triumph of radical black nationalism in South Africa, Botswana?s neighbor. And when a small but violent insurrection erupts in the wild northern part of the country, inspired by Kerekang but stoked by the erotic and political intrigues of the American trio?the outcome is explosive and often explosively funny. Along the way, there are many pleasures. Letters from Ray?s brilliantly hostile brother and Iris?s woebegone sister provide a running commentary on contemporary life in America. Africa and Africans are powerfully evoked, and the expatriate scene is cheerfully skewered. Through lives lived ardently in an unforgiving land,Mortalsexamines with wit and insight the dilemmas of power, religion, rebellion, and contending versions of liberation and love. It is a study of a marriage over time, and a man?s struggle to find his way when his private and public worlds are shifting. It is Norman Rush?s most commanding work.…