Mortals
of Norman Rush
Description
At once a political adventure, a portrait of a passionate but imperiled marriage, and an acrobatic novel of ideas, Mortals marks Norman Rushâs return to the territory he has made his own, the southern African nation of Botswana. Nobody here is entirely what he claims to be. Ray Finch is not just a middle-aged Milton scholar but a CIA agent. His lovely and doted-upon wife Iris is also a possible adulteress. And Davis Morel, the black alternative physician who is treating her--while undertaking a quixotic campaign to de-Christianize Africaâmay also be her lover. As a spy, the compulsively literate Ray ought to have no trouble confirming his suspicions. But thereâs the distraction of actual spying. Most of all, thereâs the problem of love, which Norman Rush anatomizes in all its hopeless splendor in a novel that would have delighted Milton, Nabokov, and Graham Greene.
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Book Details
- Format Paperback
- Pages 736 pages
- Publisher Vintage
- Publication Date July 13th 2004
- First Publication 05/27/03
- Language English
- ISBN 9780679737117
- Edition Not informed
- Category Fiction
- Scenario ['Botswana']
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