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      Foreign Land

      by Jonathan Raban
      Published
      Nov 1985
      Main Genre
      General Fiction General Fiction
      Pages
      352
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      From the bestselling, award-winning author of Bad Land comes a quirky and insightful novel of what can happen when one can and does go home again.

      "Raban's achievements in this novel are nothing short of awesome." —The Washington Post

      For the past thirty years, George Grey has been a ship bunker in the fictional west African nation of Montedor, but now he's returning home to England—to a daughter who's a famous author he barely knows, to a peculiar new friend who back in the sixties was one of England's more famous singers, and to the long and empty days of retirement during which he's easy prey to the melancholy of memories, all the more acute since the woman he loves is still back in Africa. Witty, charming and masterly crafted, Foreign Land is an exquisitely moving tale of awkward relationships and quiet redemption.

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      Aug 1986 Picador (UK) ISBN13 9780330292306 ISBN10 0330292307
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      Oct 1986 Penguin ISBN13 9780140082661 ISBN10 0140082662
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      Dec 2001 Vintage ISBN13 9780375725944 ISBN10 0375725946
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      First Edition Nov 1985 Viking ISBN13 9780670807673 ISBN10 0670807672
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      Apr 2010 Vintage ISBN10 B003FCVFR2
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      May 2010 Knopf ISBN13 9780307525055 ISBN10 0307525058
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      Jul 1986 Charnwood ISBN13 9780708983478 ISBN10 0708983472
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