| Celebration Revised Edition Contributor(s): Settle, Mary Lee (Author) |
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ISBN: 1570030960 ISBN-13: 9781570030963 Publisher: University of South Carolina Press OUR PRICE: $20.89 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 1995 Annotation: One of Mary Lee Settle's richest and most compassionate novels, Celebration chronicles the love affair of a widowed American anthropologist and a Scottish geologist who meet in the British Museum. Set in 1969, the novel also tells the intertwining tales of the couple's diverse cast of friends - a gay English aristocrat and his Hong Kong love, a gargantuan Dinka Jesuit, a sexually subversive editor, a former colonial civil servant, and, as comic relief, an unwitting FBI agent. Despite the fact that these characters live in the most murderous of centuries and that many of them have encountered death in intimate fashion, they all choose to celebrate life. This joyful novel ends with a wedding, a funeral, and a celebration - all in London, though the celebrants travel from countries across the globe. Together they view one of the twentieth century's strangest events - the landing on the moon - a happening which seems to presage an even more displaced future. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 95032385 |
| Series: Mary Lee Settle Collection |
| Physical Information: 1.09" H x 5.55" W x 8" (1.12 lbs) 354 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Celebration chronicles the love story of a widowed American anthropologist and a Scottish geologist as well as the intertwining tales of the couple's eccentric circle of friends, which include a homosexual English aristocrat, a gargantuan African Jesuit, an editor of pornographic literature, and an overzealous CIA agent. Despite the fact that these characters live in the most murderous of centuries and have all reckoned with death in some intimate fashion, they choose to celebrate life over death. Set in 1969, this joyful novel ends with a wedding, a funeral, and a celebration--all in London, though the celebrants hail from around the globe. Together they view the twentieth century's strangest event--the landing on the moon--a happening which seems to presage an even more displaced future. |