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      As If By Magic

      by Angus Wilson
      Published
      Jan 1973
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      General Fiction General Fiction
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      426
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      Hamo Langmuir flies westwards round the world to examine the effects of his miraculous high-yielding rice, leaving a bleak and impotent existence behind him. His god-daughter, Alexandra Grant, travels with her magic of myths and mysticism along the hippy trail to the East. With a wry wit Angus Wilson brings into focus their separate adventures (Quixotic in Hamo's case, dreamlike in Alexandra's) until the tragic denouement when they meet in Goa. 'Enough thought, comedy, wit, excitement and pathos to keep a dozen less profligate and inventive novelists busy for years.' Francis King, Observer

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      Feb 2009 Faber and Faber (UK) ISBN13 9780571248995 ISBN10 0571248993
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      Apr 1978 Penguin ISBN13 9780140040623 ISBN10 0140040625
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      Oct 2003 Midpoint Trade Books, Incorporated ISBN13 9781842324370 ISBN10 1842324373
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      First Edition Oct 1998 Viking ISBN13 9780436575143 ISBN10 0436575140
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      Oct 1973 Viking ISBN13 9780670137251 ISBN10 0670137251
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