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ISBN10: 1590176464
ISBN13: 9781590176467
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: Jun 11 2013
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.46
Height: 0.43 Width: 4.56 Depth: 8.41
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781590176467
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: Jun 11 2013
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.46
Height: 0.43 Width: 4.56 Depth: 8.41
Language: English
Two lonely Londoners bond over a plan to free the sea turtles at the city zoo in this touching novel from a cult-favorite author who has drawn comparisons to J.D. Salinger and Kurt Vonnegut.
A wise and touching classic that crackles with witty detail, mordant intelligence and self-deprecating irony, from the author of Riddley Walker (Time) Life in a city can be atomizing, isolating. And it certainly is for William G. and Neaera H., the strangers at the center of Russell Hoban's surprisingly heartwarming novel Turtle Diary. William, a clerk at a used bookstore, lives in a rooming house after a divorce that has left him without home or family. Neaera is a successful writer of children's books, who, in her own estimation, looks like the sort of spinster who doesn't keep cats and is not a vegetarian. Looks...like a man's woman who hasn't got a man. Entirely unknown to each other, they are both drawn to the turtle tank at the London Zoo with minds full of turtle thoughts, wondering how the turtles might be freed. And then comes the day when Neaera walks into William's bookstore, and together they form an unlikely partnership to make what seemed a crazy dream become a reality.
A wise and touching classic that crackles with witty detail, mordant intelligence and self-deprecating irony, from the author of Riddley Walker (Time) Life in a city can be atomizing, isolating. And it certainly is for William G. and Neaera H., the strangers at the center of Russell Hoban's surprisingly heartwarming novel Turtle Diary. William, a clerk at a used bookstore, lives in a rooming house after a divorce that has left him without home or family. Neaera is a successful writer of children's books, who, in her own estimation, looks like the sort of spinster who doesn't keep cats and is not a vegetarian. Looks...like a man's woman who hasn't got a man. Entirely unknown to each other, they are both drawn to the turtle tank at the London Zoo with minds full of turtle thoughts, wondering how the turtles might be freed. And then comes the day when Neaera walks into William's bookstore, and together they form an unlikely partnership to make what seemed a crazy dream become a reality.
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