| Natives and Exotics Contributor(s): Alison, Jane (Author) |
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ISBN: 0156032473 ISBN-13: 9780156032476 Publisher: Harper Paperbacks OUR PRICE: $16.14 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 2006 Annotation: In the manner of W.G. Sebald's "The Emigrants," this novel follows three characters, linked by blood and legacy, through four stories that span a period from the discovery of the first dinosaur bones to the unsettling revelation that the continents drift. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Sagas - Fiction | Historical - General - Fiction | Family Life - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2004023118 |
| Physical Information: 0.63" H x 5.32" W x 8.02" (0.53 lbs) 256 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1900-1949 - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - Australian - Cultural Region - Latin America - Topical - Family |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In the manner of W. G. Sebald's The Emigrants, Natives and Exotics follows three characters, linked by blood and legacy, as they wander a world scarred by colonialism. Transplanted halfway around the globe in 1970, nine-year-old Alice, the child of diplomats, is ravished by the beauty of Ecuador, a country her parents are helping to despoil. Forty years earlier, Alice's newlywed grandmother Violet confronts troubling traces of her country's past as she makes a home in the wilds of Australia. And before that, in early nineteenth-century Scotland, Violet's great-great-grandfather George flees the violence of the Clearances for the Portuguese Azores, unaware that he will have a hand in destroying the earthly paradise there. The third novel by the author of the critically acclaimed The Marriage of the Sea and The Love-Artist, Natives and Exotics is a hypnotic meditation on our passionate, uneasy affair with nature, in which we restlessly search for home. |
Contributor Bio(s): Alison, Jane: - JANE ALISON is the author of three novels: The Love-Artist, The Marriage of the Sea, and Natives and Exotics. She teaches in the MFA programs at the University of Miami and Queens University in Charlotte. |