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      The Long Day Wanes

      by Anthony Burgess
      Published
      Dec 1981
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      624
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      A sweetly satiric look at the twilight days of colonialism.

      Set in postwar Malaya at the time when people and governments alike are bemused and dazzled by the turmoil of independence, this three-part novel is rich in hilarious comedy and razor-sharp in observation. The protagonist of the work is Victor Crabbe, a teacher in a multiracial school in a squalid village, who moves upward in position as he and his wife maintain a steady decadent progress backward.

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      First Edition Dec 1981 Penguin ISBN13 9780140059632 ISBN10 0140059636
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      Apr 1977 W.W. Norton & Company ISBN13 9780393008647 ISBN10 0393008649
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      Feb 1993 W.W. Norton & Company ISBN13 9780393309430 ISBN10 0393309436
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