Mating
Set in the African republic of Botswana--the locale of his acclaimed short story collection, Whites--Norman Rush's novel simultaneously explores the highest of intellectual high grounds and the most tortuous ravines of the erotic. tackles the geopolitics of poverty and the mystery of what men and...
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Set in the African republic of Botswana--the locale of his acclaimed short story collection, Whites--Norman Rush's novel simultaneously explores the highest of intellectual high grounds and the most tortuous ravines of the erotic. tackles the geopolitics of poverty and the mystery of what men and women really want.From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780394544724 (0394544722)
Publish date: September 3rd 1991
Publisher: Knopf
Pages no: 477
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Travel,
Literature,
Cultural,
Africa,
Book Club,
Literary Fiction,
Contemporary,
Modern,
Anthropology
I understand why people go crazy for this book, but it wasn't for me. It was interesting enough to keep me plodding through all 477 pages, even though I didn't really like the work until the action starts, in Part 7 "Strife", all the way down on page 357.Here is an example of why I didn't like this ...
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