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| Smith, Wilbur: Elephant Song
Book Number: 26375
Macmillan 4 April, 1991 8vo hardcover 450pp index, b/w illus. very good, owner's inscription on fep. / very good d/w. From the peaks of Ethiopia's Mountains of the Moon and the deep forests where the Nile rises, to the teeming streets of Taiwan and London's city boardrooms, a man and woman fight against the forces of greed, evil and corruption to save a people and a habitat from extinction.
Keywords: Fiction Elephant Song Smith Wilbur
Price: $15.00 |
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| Smith, Wilbur: Men of Men
Book Number: 26480
London Heinemann , 1981. first edition 8vo hardcover 505pp index, b/w illus. very good / good d/w with a few very small tears on edges. A thriller set in the age of empire, battle and conquest, about a man whose dream begins in the danger and drudgery of the diamond pits and ends on the rich grasslands of Matabeleland, but not before a king and proud warrior nation have paid the price of history.
Keywords: Fiction Men of Men Smith Wilbur
Price: $35.00 |
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| Duff, Alan: Once were warriors
Book Number: 26674
St. Lucia, Qld. University of Queensland 1991 8vo softcover 198pp very good. From Kirkus Reviewsn Upon its New Zealand publication in 1990, this controversial debut novel rocketed to the bestseller list. It's easy to understand why. Beth, a Maori mother, feels nothing but anger and disgust at her people, who accept second-class citizenship as a given. Relegated to government housing in an unnamed city, she lives just two vacant blocks away from whites whose homes offer tantalizing glimpses of a privileged existence she and her family will never have. As far as Beth is concerned, the Maoris would not have become impoverished lackeys with very little self-esteem had they stayed close to their warrior roots. Instead, the men's lives consist of beer, gangs, fights, and beating their wives. Beth receives a ``hiding'' for embarrassing her husband in front of his friends, her daughter is raped and commits suicide, her young son is carted off to juvenile hall, and his older brother dies in a gang fight, but Beth finds strength by summoning up her tribal heritage and teaching it to others. A lot to take in, but these are only the most active moments in a book whose main action is interior. Readers are treated to the mind's musings before and after events, the distinctive imagery of people locked in a present they're trying to forget. Duff (himself the son of a Maori mother and a white father) shows amazing facility with language in the intense, fast-paced, choppy internal monologues he gives his characters. Making skilled use of the repetitive nature of thought, he draws readers inside each voice in turn, using dialect (often including profanities) so naturally that it reads easily even for Americans. Duff shows courage in attacking the view that assimilation is the first step out of poverty, and he does so by spinning a compelling tale. -- Copyright ©1994, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. nnBook Descriptionn Once Were Warriors is Alan Duff's harrowing vision of his country's indigenous people two hundred years after the English conquest. In prose that is both raw and compelling, it tells the story of Beth Heke, a Maori woman struggling to keep her family from falling apart, despite the squalor and violence of the housing projects in which they live. Conveying both the rich textures of Maori tradition and the wounds left by its absence, Once Were Warriors is a masterpiece of unblinking realism.
Keywords: Maori (New Zealand people) Once were warriors Duff Alan
Price: $8.00 |
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| Proulx, Annie.: The shipping news
Book Number: 26682
London Fourth Estate 1993 8vo softcover 337pp very good. Reissued to coincide with the release of her new novel 'That Old Ace in the Hole', Annie Proulx's highly acclaimed, international best-seller and Pulitzer prize-winning novel. Quoyle is a hapless, hopeless hack journalist living and working in New York. When his no-good wife is killed in a spectacular road accident, Quoyle heads for the land of his forefathers -- the remotest corner of far-flung Newfoundland. With 'the aunt' and his delinquent daughters -- Bunny and Sunshine -- in tow, Quoyle finds himself part of an unfolding, exhilarating Atlantic drama. The Shipping News is an irresistible comedy of human life and possibility. 'To read The Shipping News is to yearn to be sitting in The Flying Squid Lunchstop, eating Seal Fin curry, watching the icebergs clink together in the bay.' The Times
Keywords: Newfoundland Fiction The shipping news Proulx Annie
Price: $8.00 |
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| Wiggan, Maurice:: A Cottage Idyll
Book Number: 27051
London, Book Club, 1969. 8vo. hardcover. 157pp. b/w illus. very good. / very good d/w.' ' '
Keywords: surrey hills novel fiction
Price: $15.00 |
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| Grey, Anthony: Peking
Book Number: 27321
Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1988 8vo hardcover 645pp. very good, outer page edges browned. / very good d/w.
Keywords: Fiction in English Peking Grey Anthony
Price: $18.00 |
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| Kaye, M.M.: Death in Zanzibar
Book Number: 27632
Allen Lane, 1983 8vo hardcover 270pp. very good / very good d/w.
Keywords: Fiction Death in Zanzibar Kaye M M
Price: $15.00 |
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| Wolfe, Michael: The Two-Star Pigeon
Book Number: 27642
Harper & Row 1974 8vo hardcover 244pp. very good / very good d/w.
Keywords: The Two Star Pigeon Wolfe Michael
Price: $18.00 |
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| Gallico, Paul: Boy Who Invented the Bubble Gun: An Odyssey of Innocence
Book Number: 27803
London Heinemann, 1974 8vo hardcover 192pp. very good / very good d/w.
Keywords: Fiction Boy Who Invented the Bubble Gun An Odyssey of Innocence Gallico Paul
Price: $15.00 |
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| Harrison, Jim: Warlock
Book Number: 27832
Collins 29 October, 1981 8vo hardcover 276pp index, b/w illus. very good / very good d/w.
Keywords: Fiction Warlock Harrison Jim
Price: $25.00 |
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