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INDIGO
by Wiley, Richard
- Used
- as new
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- As New/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0525935479
- ISBN 13
- 9780525935476
- Seller
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Los Angeles, California, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY, U.S.A.: Dutton/Plume, 1992. First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Jerry Neal, an American living in Lagos, is principal of an international school attended by children of Americans living abroad and the African elite. The wife he loves is dead, and guiding the education of the offspring of others is his chief source of satisfaction and self-esteem. He is a man floating free, with both the privileges and purposelessness of detachment. But Neal's self-contained world is suddenly shattered. He finds himself in prison, the victim of a government power play and his involvement with a group of Nigerian dissidents. Stripped of his mantle of immunity, he becomes more emotionally human again, living in his own skin, feeling the chill of danger, the heat of desire. Against his will, schoolmaster Neal begins his own education--one that takes him into the arms of the estranged wife of charismatic dissident leader Beany Abubakar. Thus Neal is seduced into a commune of serious people--artists and activists struggling against ruthless fate--and into confrontation with the prickly Abubakar himself, a leader whose arrogance is matched by intelligence, and whose passionate idealism is equaled by brutal realism. And slowly Neal starts to understand African aspirations.other kinds of lives and values.the barriers of language and culture to meaningful communication. This discovery unites him with the rebels, and brings him to an ultimate reckoning of what commitment means and costs in the African crucible of choice and change. This extraordinary, beautifully crafted, and often funny novel is a riveting revelation of a distant land and its people brought tellingly home to the heart. Wiley won the 1987 PEN/Faulkner Award for Best American Fiction for SOLDIERS IN HIDING. He is also the author of FOOL'S GOLD and FESTIVAL FOR THREE THOUSAND MAIDENS. As new, unread copy, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. A3
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Details
- Bookseller
- Joe Staats, Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8114
- Title
- INDIGO
- Author
- Wiley, Richard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0525935479
- ISBN 13
- 9780525935476
- Publisher
- Dutton/Plume
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1992
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
- Keywords
- NIGERIA FICTION
- Product_type
- 2
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Joe Staats, Bookseller
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We specialize in collectible, contemporary signed first editions. First edition means the first printing. (Later printings of the first edition are typically not printed on acid-free paper, and should be avoided by collectors.) Signatures are obtained by us in person. Inscribed books sold by us may contain a line, a phrase, or a sketch that the author has chosen to add. Our signed books are not dedicated to anybody in particular (not to your grandmother, your Aunt Gladys, your ex-lover or your former cellmate), except in the rare case of a presentation copy from an author to a noteworthy person. All our books are hardcover, unless the book is an Advance Reading Copy, Uncorrected Proof, or PBO. You can expect that the books we send you will be as described, and in a physical condition worthy of the author’s having signed them. We do not sell remainder-marked books, signed or otherwise
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