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New York. 1983. Dial Press. 1st Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket. 0385279477. 227 pages. hardcover. keywords: Literature America . FROM THE PUBLISHER - BLACK COCONUTS, BROWN MAGIC is a first novel by Joseph Theroux, set in the fallen paradise of Samoa. Silas Wicklowe, once a medic in Vietnam, is now a doctor on a three-month assignment at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Tropical Medical Center in Pago Pago. Wicklowe carries a double burden. Born in American Samoa, the son of a naval officer, he has returned to paradise to uncover the mysteries surrounding his dead mother and father. He's also running from his former wife. His war experience has made him impotent, thrown him into a kind of psychic fatigue. He suffers from what the Samoans call ''spirit sickness.'' He screams in the night and walks around with dead eyes. He has the Vietnam blues. inventory #4577 ISBN: 0385279477.
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- Title Black Coconuts, Brown Magic
- Author Joseph Theroux
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- Pages 227
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Dial Press, New York
- Date 1983-10
- ISBN 9780385279475 / 0385279477
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 83002078
- Dewey Decimal Code 813.54
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The Dial Press, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Unmarked. Unclipped dust jacket under clear mylar cover with slightest chipping. In this exotic dark comedy, Simon Wicklowe, a troubled young American doctor, journeys to exotic Samoa to exorcise the demons tormenting his life and to uncover the truth behind his parents' disappearance from the islands. 227p. Measures 5.75x8.5 inches.
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