This glorious tapestry of a novel returns to Taylor’s accustomed stomping ground – the university campus – with whisper-close third-person narration and minute observation worthy of his revered Austen. His characters – many gay, many black, all hungering after something intangible – wrestle with art, desire, capital and above all the agony of alienation.
The Late Americans
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Edition:Hardback978178733443422/06/2023From a Bookshelf nearby
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By the former UK Ambassador who had the unenviable task of explaining Britain and Brexit to the US president. He resigned, and wrote this book instead.
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A new collection of essays from Rankine, troubled by contemporary America: anecdotal, conversational, exploratory, never prescriptive.
Just Us: An American Conversation
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Riotous combination of journalism and cartoons about the iniquities of resource extraction in the Canadian subarctic.
Paying the Land
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WD won the Samuel Johnson Prize for Into the Silence. Discursive, erudite and observant, he turns now to the story of Colombia's mightiest river. NB Publication of this book has been de... read more
Magdalena: River of Dreams
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