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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherArcadia Books The Limited
ISBN-101900850230
ISBN-139781900850230
eBay Product ID (ePID)1697246
Product Key Features
Book TitleAll I Wanted Was Company
Number of Pages182 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicGeneral, Literary
Publication Year1999
IllustratorYes
GenreFiction
AuthorJohn Hopkins
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.3 in
Item Weight8.8 Oz
Item Length7.8 in
Item Width5.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition21
Dewey Decimal813.5/4
SynopsisWhen Norman, a young American lands up in Tangier,he little realises that his affair with Alice, a,woman of a certain age, will end in tragedy. His,quest takes him back to New York and then again to,Morocco, where he falls in love with Miss,Toledano, a crippled Moraccan Jewess. Hopkin's,richly evocative novel culminates in a dersert,scene worthy of Paul Boweles's 'the Sheltering,Sky'., Love and solitude seem like irreconcilable opposites to Norman, a young American. His love affairs in Tangier with two older women end with the death of one and the disappearance of the other, sending him to the Sahara, alone on the edge of time ...