An edition of Celebration (1986)

Celebration

1st University of South Carolina Press ed.
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An edition of Celebration (1986)

Celebration

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One of Mary Lee Settle's richest and most compassionate novels, Celebration chronicles the love affair of a widowed American anthropologist and a Scottish geologist who meet in the British Museum. Set in 1969, the novel also tells the intertwining tales of the couple's diverse cast of friends - a gay English aristocrat and his Hong Kong love, a gargantuan Dinka Jesuit, a sexually subversive editor, a former colonial civil servant, and, as comic relief, an unwitting FBI agent.

Despite the fact that these characters live in the most murderous of centuries and that many of them have encountered death in intimate fashion, they all choose to celebrate life. This joyful novel ends with a wedding, a funeral, and a celebration - all in London, though the celebrants travel from countries across the globe. Together they view one of the twentieth century's strangest events - the landing on the moon - a happening which seems to presage an even more displaced future.

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English
Pages
355

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Cover of: Celebration
Celebration
1995, University of South Carolina Press
in English - 1st University of South Carolina Press ed.
Cover of: Celebration
Celebration
1987, Perennial Library
in English
Cover of: Celebration
Celebration
1987, Hutchinson, Franklin Library
in English
Cover of: Celebration
Celebration
1987-11-05, Trafalgar Square
Cover of: Celebration.
Celebration.
1986, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
in English
Cover of: Celebration
Celebration
1986-01-01, Farrar Straus & Giroux, Gordonsville, Virginia, U.S.A.
Cover of: Celebration
Celebration
1986, Franklin Library
in English - 1st ed.
Cover of: Celebration
Celebration
1986, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Farrar Straus & Giroux
in English

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Columbia, S.C

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Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3569.E84 C45 1995, PS3569.E84C45 1995

The Physical Object

Pagination
355 p. ;
Number of pages
355

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL796486M
ISBN 10
1570030960
LCCN
95032385
OCLC/WorldCat
32778760
Library Thing
2406
Goodreads
4758564

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