Mating

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1993
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The first major novel by the author of the critically-acclaimed short story collection Whites. A comedy of manners on the grandest scale, the story revolves around two Americans on the loose (one of them on the prowl) in developing Africa. It follows a woman's search for a worthy male, which takes her from her academic anthropology studies to a utopian matriarchal community in Botswana. A modern, international, male rewriting of Pride and Prejudice, this is a bold and extraordinary book. Winner of the Irish Times International Fiction Prize.

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The first major novel by the author of the critically-acclaimed short story collection Whites. A comedy of manners on the grandest scale, the story revolves around two Americans on the loose (one of them on the prowl) in developing Africa. It follows a woman's search for a worthy male, which takes her from her academic anthropology studies to a utopian matriarchal community in Botswana. A modern, international, male rewriting of Pride and Prejudice, this is a bold and extraordinary book. Winner of the Irish Times International Fiction Prize.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 496
Edition: New Ed
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 19 Aug 1993
ISBN 10: 0099207915
ISBN 13: 9780099207917
Book Overview: 'One of the most hypnotic reading experiences I've ever had... every feminist would be proud to claim this extraordinary novel as her own' - Margaret Forster, Sunday Telegraph

Media Reviews

The best novel this year, and doubtless for some to come... the whole is not only dizzyingly readable, but also has that feeling, rare and unforgettable in contemporary fiction, of everything being at stake - ethically, emotionally and imaginatively Independent A comedy of manners crackling with ideas: about feminism, commitment, politics, Africa and the West. Rush brilliantly sustains the voice of his central character... and makes the post-colonial city and the new community itself familiar and concrete Observer [A] striking success Guardian

Author Bio

Norman Rush was born and raised in the San Francisco area, and graduated from Swarthmore College in 1956. He has been an antiquarian book dealer, a college instructor, and, with his wife, Elsa, lived and worked in Africa from 1978 to 1983. His stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Grand Street, and The Best American Short Stories of 1971, 1984 and 1985. He has been the recipient of numerous awards, including an NEA grant, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship. His first book, Whites, a collection of short stories was highly-acclaimed and Mating, his first novel won the National Book Award for fiction and the prestigious Irish Times-Aer Lingus International Fiction Prize.