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  | | Subtle Bodies(1st Edition) (Vintage International) by Norman Rush Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2014 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-1-4000-7713-7, ISBN: 1-4000-7713-3 "**A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK** In a sophisticated romp through the tribulations and joys of marriage and friendship, a group of college friends reunites two decades after graduation. After the sudden death of Douglas, once the ringleader of a clique of self-styled wits, his four best friends are summoned to his Catskills estate to mourn his passing. Responding to a mysterious sense of emergency in the call, Ned flies in from San Fran ..." |
 | | Mating(1st Edition) A Novel by Norman Rush Paperback, 496 Pages, Published 1992 by Vintage International Edition ISBN-13: 978-0-679-73709-4, ISBN: 0-679-73709-X "Had Jane Austen been in the Peace Corps in Africa in the 1980s, Mating is the book she might have written. Set in Botswana in the days before the end of apartheid, Norman Rush's novel is, essentially, a comedy of manners played out in Austen's approved milieu: a country village. Granted, the village in question, Tsau, is a utopian society created by the great American anthropologist Nelson Denoon, and run largely by and for disenfranchi ..." |
 | | Whites(Reprint) (Vintage International) by Norman Rush, William Rush Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 1992 by Vintage Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-679-73816-9, ISBN: 0-679-73816-9 "Whether they are Americans, Brits, or a stubborn and suicidally moral Dutchman, Norman Rush’s whites are not sure why they are in Botswana. Their uncertainty makes them do odd things. Driven half-mad by the barking of his neighbor’s dogs, Carl dips timidly into native witchcraft—only to jump back out at the worst possible moment. Ione briskly pursues a career as a “seducer” (“A seductress was merely someone who was seductive and who mig ..." |
 | | Mortals(Reprint) by Norman Rush Paperback, 736 Pages, Published 2004 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-679-73711-7, ISBN: 0-679-73711-1 "Surely someone has already pointed out the irony of the surname Rush for a writer who can devote a long paragraph to uneven paving tiles. Mortals--the follow-up to Norman Rush's National Book Award-winning Mating--is a complex, unhurried tour de force; the beautifully rendered story of the end of a marriage. Ray and Iris Finch are white American expatriates in Botswana. A school principal and Milton scholar, Ray is also a contract age ..." |
 | | Mortals (Paperback) by Norman Rush Paperback, Published 2018 by Granta Books ISBN-13: 978-1-84708-785-0, ISBN: 1-84708-785-X "International Edition" |
 | | Subtle Bodies by Norman Rush Paperback, Published 2014 by Granta Books, United Kingdom ISBN-13: 978-1-84708-781-2, ISBN: 1-84708-781-7 |
 | | Subtle Bodies(1st Edition) by Norman Rush Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 2013 by Knopf Deckle Edge ISBN-13: 978-1-4000-4250-0, ISBN: 1-4000-4250-X "In his long-awaited new novel, Norman Rush, author of three immensely praised books set in Africa, including the best-selling classic and National Book Award-winner Mating, returns home, giving us a sophisticated, often comical, romp through the particular joys and tribulations of marriage, and the dilemmas of friendship, as a group of college friends reunites in upstate New York twenty-some years after graduation. When Douglas, the rin ..." |
 | | Mating(1st Edition) by Norman Rush, Jane Smiley Hardcover, 477 Pages, Published 1991 by Alfred A. Knopf ISBN-13: 978-0-394-54472-4, ISBN: 0-394-54472-2 "Set in the African republic of Botswana--the locale of his acclaimed short story collection, Whites--Norman Rush's novel simultaneously explores the highest of intellectual high grounds and the most tortuous ravines of the erotic. tackles the geopolitics of poverty and the mystery of what men and women really want.From the Trade Paperback edition." |
 | | Whites(1st Edition) by Norman Rush Hardcover, 150 Pages, Published 1986 by Alfred A. Knopf ISBN-13: 978-0-394-54471-7, ISBN: 0-394-54471-4 "Whether they are American, British or a stubborn and suicidally moral Dutchman, Norman Rush's whites are not sure why they are in Botswana, and this uncertainty makes them do very strange things." |
 | | Subtle Bodies(Large Print) by Norman Rush Pasta Dura, 303 Pages, Published 2014 by Center Point Pub Texto Grande ISBN-13: 978-1-61173-998-5, ISBN: 1-61173-998-5 "When Douglas, the ringleader of a clique of self-styled wits of "superior sensibility" dies suddenly, his four remaining friends are summoned to his estate high in the Catskills to memorialize his life and mourn his passing. Responding to an obscure sense of emergency in the call, Ned, our hero, flies in from San Francisco pursued instantly by his furious wife, Nina: they're at a critical point in their attempt to get Nina pregnant, and ..." |
 | | Subtle Bodies (Hardcover) by Norman Rush Hardcover, Published 2013 by Granta Books ISBN-13: 978-1-84708-780-5, ISBN: 1-84708-780-9 |
 | | Mortals Rush, Norman by Norman Rush Hardcover, 736 Pages, Published 2003 by Knopf ISBN-13: 978-0-679-40622-8, ISBN: 0-679-40622-0 |
 | | Mortals by Norman Rush 736 Pages, Published 2011 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-307-78936-5, ISBN: 0-307-78936-5 "“Yeah, but you're leaving out Fabius and Montshwa. ... I don't mean to beat up on your idea, but I don't think you understand a lot of things you should. ... in general for the true heroes of the world—the hard men, the practical men, less overeducated men like Boyle himself. ... I'm sorry if you think he's fascinating. ... And I know how careful you are and how you keep all your notes safe when you write." |
 | | Mortals(1st Edition) by Norman Rush Paperback, 715 Pages, Published 2003 by Knopf ISBN-13: 978-0-9657661-5-9, ISBN: 0-9657661-5-2 "Alfred Knopf Thick Trade Paperback, copyright 2003 with 715+ pages. size: 5 1/2" x 8 1/4". Maps on front & back pages. "Exhilarating...One of the wisest and wittiest fictional meditations ever written on the subject of mating..Few books evoke so eloquently the state of love at its apogee." N.Y. Times Book Review" |
 | | Whites(1st Edition) Stories by Norman Rush Paperback, 150 Pages, Published 1987 by Collier Books ISBN-13: 978-0-02-023841-6, ISBN: 0-02-023841-X "Whether they are American, British or a stubborn and suicidally moral Dutchman, Norman Rush's whites are not sure why they are in Botswana, and this uncertainty makes them do very strange things." |
 | | Tropic Moon (New York Review Books Classics) by Georges/ Ro Simenon, Marc Romano, Norman Rush Paperback, 152 Pages, Published 2005 by Nyrb Classics ISBN-13: 978-1-59017-111-0, ISBN: 1-59017-111-X ""Simenon's romans durs are extraordinary: tough, bleak, offhandedly violent, suffused with guilt and bitterness, redolent of place . . . utterly unsentimental, frightening in the pitilessness of their gaze, yet wonderfully entertaining." - John Banville A young Frenchman, Joseph Timar, travels to Gabon carrying a letter of introduction from an influential uncle. He wants work experience; he wants to see the world. But in the oppr ..." |
 | | SUBTLE BODIES by Norman Rush Published by Unknown Publisher ISBN-13: 978-1-199-07650-2, ISBN: 1-199-07650-3 |
 | | Mortals by Norman Rush Published 2014 by Granta Books ISBN-13: 978-1-84708-786-7, ISBN: 1-84708-786-8 "His doted-upon wife, Iris, may be an adulteress. And her physician, the quixotic Davis Morel, may be her lover. Mortals is a riotous political adventure, a meticulous portrait of a marriage and a richly ambitious novel of ideas." |
 | | n+1 Number Seventeen(1st Edition) The Evil Issue by Marco Roth, Rebecca Curtis, Gregory S. Moss, Norman Rush, Chris Kraus, Alice Gregory, N. 1., Gabriel Winant, Dayna Tortorici, Keith Gessen, Nikil Saval, Mark Greif, Benjamin Kunkel, Chad Harbach, Dan O. Williams, Carla Blumenkranz Paperback, 212 Pages, Published 2013 by N+1 Foundation ISBN-13: 978-0-9890782-1-4, ISBN: 0-9890782-1-3 "Fall 2013, The Evil Issue: New fiction from Norman Rush and Rebecca Curtis, new drama from Gregory S. Moss. Franco Moretti reads Middlemarch, Alice Gregory goes surfing, and Chris Kraus asks what comes after art." |
 | | Subtle Bodies by Norman Rush 256 Pages, Published 2013 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-385-35045-7, ISBN: 0-385-35045-7 "Joris asked. Iva said, “Yes, butmore. We mustsay them, anditmust be the truth, you see.” Gruen said, “I think she means a ceremony.” Joris was saying something calming to her, and it seemed to be helping. Iva rose and the guests followed suit ..." |
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