Sign-In
Cart
Love on the Borders
Paperback
Currently unavailable to order
Please enter your email and a message will be sent to you when this product becomes available on our website.
ISBN10: 1854113895
ISBN13: 9781854113894
Publisher: Seren Books
Published: Jun 1 2006
Pages: 236
Weight: 0.57
Height: 0.72 Width: 6.82 Depth: 7.60
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781854113894
Publisher: Seren Books
Published: Jun 1 2006
Pages: 236
Weight: 0.57
Height: 0.72 Width: 6.82 Depth: 7.60
Language: English
This encyclopedic novel--about Britain's relationship to the wider world, borders and their conflicts, the body and its passions, and ultimately about imagination--takes place in the mind of Celestine, an English woman on holiday. As she walks the length of Offa's Dyke, the ancient earthwork that divides England and Wales, she ruminates, sometimes comically, on her childhood in India, her sojourns in Jerusalem and New York, her travels in Zimbabwe, and her ruined love affairs. Frequently she ponders characters and passages from books, until at a pivotal moment she finds herself unable to stop reciting Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark, which takes on an ever-increasing and sinister significance.
Also in
General Fiction
The Patrick Melrose Novels: Never Mind, Bad News, Some Hope, and Mother's Milk
St Aubyn, Edward
Paperback
From $9.99
Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution
Kuang, R. F.
Paperback
From $12.99