Teeth of the Dog: A Novel - Hardcover

Ciment, Jill

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0517702029 ISBN 13: 9780517702024

Verlag: Crown Pub, 1999

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Book by Ciment Jill

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A renowned American anthropologist, his much younger wife, and a young drifter form a dangerous and passionate triangle, in a story of love and tragedy set against the exotic backdrop of the Melanesian island of Vanduu. By the author of Half a Life. 17,500 first printing.

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f the critically hailed Half a Life steps boldly into world-class literary territory with this tightly structured yet richly expansive literary thriller that will call to mind the work of Graham Greene and Paul Bowles's The Sheltering Sky.

Thomas, a renowned American anthropologist, his much younger wife Helene, and Finster, a young, culturally shipwrecked AMR (American mercantile riffraff), as he's known locally, enact a tense personal drama of love and tragedy against the much larger historical drama of the Melanesian island of Vanduu, a steaming crucible where East and West, fundamentalist piety and free market fire, decay and sterility augur the future of the world.
        
Helene has lured Thomas to Vanduu in the desperate hope that its tropical splendor can miraculously heal the fracture that has cleaved their lives: Thomas's health is failing, and Helene simply can't accept that she might lose him. Unabl

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• Verlag: Crown Pub
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0517702029
• ISBN 13: 9780517702024
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 216