Rules of the Wild: A Novel of Africa - Paperback - VERY GOOD

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Condition
Very Good: A book that does not look new and has been read but is in excellent condition. No obvious ...
Brand
Unbranded
Type
Novel
MPN
Does not apply
ISBN
9780375703430
Publication Year
1999
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Book Title
Rules of the Wild : a Novel of Africa
Book Series
Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
Author
Francesca Marciano
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Genre
Fiction
Topic
Contemporary Women, Romance / Contemporary, Literary, Coming of Age
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A mesmerizing novel of love and nostalgia set in the vast spaces of contemporary East Africa. Romantic, often resonantly ironic, moving and wise, Rules of the Wild transports us to a landscape of unsurpassed beauty even as it gives us a sharp-eyed portrait of a closely knit tribe of cultural outsiders: the expatriates living in Kenya today. Challenged by race, by class, and by a longing for home, here are "safari boys" and samaritans, reporters bent on their own fame, travelers who care deeply about elephants but not at all about the people of Africa. They all know each other. They meet at dinner parties, they sleep with each other, they argue about politics and the best way to negotiate their existence in a place where they don't really belong. At the center is Esm , a beautiful young woman of dazzling ironies and introspections, who tells us her story in a voice both passionate and self-deprecating. Against a paradoxical backdrop of limitless physical freedom and escalating civil unrest, Esm struggles to make sense of her own place in Africa and of her feelings for the two men there whom she loves--Adam, a second-generation Kenyan who is the first to show her the wonders of her adopted land, and Hunter, a British journalist sickened by its horrors. Rules of the Wild evokes the worlds of Isak Dinesen, Beryl Markham, and Ernest Hemingway. It explores unforgettably our infinite desire for a perfect elsewhere, for love and a place to call home. It is an astonishing literary debut.

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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0375703438
ISBN-13
9780375703430
eBay Product ID (ePID)
455272

Product Key Features

Book Title
Rules of the Wild : a Novel of Africa
Topic
Contemporary Women, Romance / Contemporary, Literary, Coming of Age
Publication Year
1999
Language
English
Genre
Fiction
Author
Francesca Marciano
Book Series
Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback

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Item Height
0.7in
Item Length
8in
Item Width
5.2in
Item Weight
8.7 Oz

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LCCN
98-010963
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Trade
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"Remarkable . . . sensuous . . . compellingly readable . . . makes you feel as if you've come back from someplace very far away." --USA Today "An intensely romantic novel . . . worthy of Flaubert." --The New York Times "An updated English Patient. . . . Engaging. . . . A page-turner. . . . Intense and lyrical." --Elle, "Remarkable . . . sensuous . . . compellingly readable . . . makes you feel as if you've come back from someplace very far away." -- USA Today "An intensely romantic novel . . . worthy of Flaubert." -- The New York Times "An updated English Patient . . . . Engaging. . . . A page-turner. . . . Intense and lyrical." -- Elle, Remarkable . . . sensuous . . . compellingly readable . . . makes you feel as if you've come back from someplace very far away." --USA Today "An intensely romantic novel . . . worthy of Flaubert." --The New York Times "An updatedEnglish Patient. . . . Engaging. . . . A page-turner. . . . Intense and lyrical." --Elle
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
823
Number of Pages
304 Pages

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