Antonia Saw the Oryx First
Thomas, Maria
| Publication Date |
1988 |
| Publisher |
Serpent's Tail, |
| Binding |
Paperback |
| Condition |
Good copy |
| SKU |
26150 |
| Notes |
Heavily and unevenly tanned externally. Text is clean. Binding is sound. |
Description
Paperback. 296pp. Novel set in Africa by the American writer Marie Thomas. “A complex, deeply written and finely wrought double portrait of two women, one black, one white, picking their way through the debris of a shattered colonialism, discovering unexpected treasures buried in the rubble,” Margaret Atwood. Maria Thomas was killed in a plane crash in 1989 in Ethiopia.
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