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Foreign landJonathan Raban
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Foreign land

352 pagesFirst published 19857 editions
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From Jonathan Raban, the award--winning author of Bad Land and Passage to Juneau, comes this quirky and insightful story of what can happen when one can and does go home again.For the past thirty years, George Grey has been a ship bunker in the fictional west African nation of Montedor, but now he's returning home to England-to a daughter who's a famous author he barely knows, to a peculiar new friend who back in the sixties was one of England's more famous singers, and to the long and empty days of retirement during which he's easy prey to the melancholy of memories, all the more acute since…

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Editions

7 in Spinefolk
FormatPublisherYearPagesISBN
EbookKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group2010—9780307525055
EditionVintage Books20013529780375725944
AudiobookBooks on Tape, Inc.1990—9780736618588
EditionPenguin19863529780140082661
EditionViking19853529780670807673
AudiobookBooks On Tape1985—9785557100830
EditionCollins Harvill19853529780002229180
BritishFictionLiteratureReverse culture shockAfrica, fictionEngland, fictionFiction, general