Natives And Exotics
Autor Jane Alisonen Limba Engleză Paperback – 9 apr 2006
Transplanted halfway around the globe in 1970, nine-year-old Alice, the child of diplomats, is ravished by the beauty of Ecuador, a country her parents are helping to despoil. Forty years earlier, Alice's newlywed grandmother Violet confronts troubling traces of her country's past as she makes a home in the wilds of Australia. And before that, in early nineteenth-century Scotland, Violet's great-great-grandfather George flees the violence of the Clearances for the Portuguese Azores, unaware that he will have a hand in destroying the earthly paradise there.
The third novel by the author of the critically acclaimed The Marriage of the Sea and The Love-Artist, Natives and Exotics is a hypnotic meditation on our passionate, uneasy affair with nature, in which we restlessly search for home.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780156032476
ISBN-10: 0156032473
Pagini: 256
Ilustrații: Five black-and-white line drawings
Dimensiuni: 135 x 203 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.24 kg
Ediția:First Edition
Editura: HarperCollins Publishers
Colecția Harper Paperbacks
Locul publicării:United States
ISBN-10: 0156032473
Pagini: 256
Ilustrații: Five black-and-white line drawings
Dimensiuni: 135 x 203 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.24 kg
Ediția:First Edition
Editura: HarperCollins Publishers
Colecția Harper Paperbacks
Locul publicării:United States
Recenzii
PRAISE FOR THE LOVE-ARTIST
"A small, twinkling jewel of a novel . . . Wonderfully seductive . . . [Alison] has found a voice, at once modern and archaic, lyrical and potent, that mesmerizes the reader."--Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
PRAISE FOR THE MARRIAGE OF THE SEA
"Beautifully balanced . . . so that the urge to find out what will happen next is counteracted by the wish to luxuriate in Alison's lush, beautifully evocative writing."--San Francisco Chronicle
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"A small, twinkling jewel of a novel . . . Wonderfully seductive . . . [Alison] has found a voice, at once modern and archaic, lyrical and potent, that mesmerizes the reader."--Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
PRAISE FOR THE MARRIAGE OF THE SEA
"Beautifully balanced . . . so that the urge to find out what will happen next is counteracted by the wish to luxuriate in Alison's lush, beautifully evocative writing."--San Francisco Chronicle
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Notă biografică
JANE ALISON is the author of three novels: The Love-Artist, The Marriage of the Sea, and Natives and Exotics. She teaches in the MFA programs at the University of Miami and Queens University in Charlotte.