The Friends of Freeland: A Novel - Hardcover

Leithauser, Brad

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679450831 ISBN 13: 9780679450832

Verlag: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1997

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Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. ; 508 pages; Description: 508 p. ; 24 cm. Subjects: Presidents --Election --Fiction. Political campaigns --Fiction. Imaginary places --Fiction. Genre: Political fiction. Humorous stories.

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Freeland, an isolated island nation in the North Atlantic, home to a proud and independent people, is suddenly confronted with the realities of the rest of the world during an election year, when three U.S. political consultants arrive to help unseat Freeland's incumbent president

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y, bawdy, exuberantly comic novel, Brad Leithauser takes us to an imaginary island-country, Freeland, during a crucial election year.

Freeland occupies its own place in the North Atlantic, somewhere between Iceland and Greenland. A geological miracle, it is desolate ("What green is to Ireland, gray is to Freeland") -- and inspiring.

The "friends" of the title are Hannibal, an expansive, lovable, unruly giant of a man who has been President of Freeland for twenty years, and Eggert, his shrewd, often prickly, always devious sidekick and adviser, who is Poet Laureate of Freeland and the book's narrator.

As the book opens, Freeland -- long happily isolated and stubbornly independent -- is in trouble. The sins of the rest of the world have begun to wash up on its shores in the form of drugs, restless youth, and a polluted, fished-out ocean. And, to add to the complications, when Hannibal, who has promised to step down as president, decides to run a

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• Verlag: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0679450831
• ISBN 13: 9780679450832
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 508