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Author: Norman Rush
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Mortals
Author
Norman Rush
ISBN
9780679737117
At once a political adventure, a portrait of a passionate but imperiled marriage, and an acrobatic novel of ideas, Mortals marks Norman Rush's return to the territory he has made his own, the southern African nation of Botswana. Nobody here is entirely what he claims to be. Ray Finch is not just a middle-aged Milton scholar but a CIA agent. His lovely and doted-upon wife Iris is also a possible adulteress. And Davis Morel, the black alternative physician who is treating her--while undertaking a quixotic campaign to de-Christianize Africa--may also be her lover. As a spy, the compulsively literate Ray ought to have no trouble confirming his suspicions. But there's the distraction of actual spying. Most of all, there's the problem of love, which Norman Rush anatomizes in all its hopeless splendor in a novel that would have delighted Milton, Nabokov, and Graham Greene.Binding Type: PaperbackAuthor: Norman RushPublisher: VintagePublished: 07/13/2004ISBN: 9780679737117Pages: 736Weight: 1.15lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.22w x 1.28dReview Citations: New York Times 07/18/2004 pg. 20New Yorker (The) 06/09/2008 pg. 86
At once a political adventure, a portrait of a passionate but imperiled marriage, and an acrobatic novel of ideas, Mortals marks Norman Rush's return to the territory he has made his own, the southern African nation of Botswana. Nobody here is entirely what he claims to be. Ray Finch is not just a middle-aged Milton scholar but a CIA agent. His lovely and doted-upon wife Iris is also a possible adulteress. And Davis Morel, the black alternative physician who is treating her--while undertaking a quixotic campaign to de-Christianize Africa--may also be her lover.

As a spy, the compulsively literate Ray ought to have no trouble confirming his suspicions. But there's the distraction of actual spying. Most of all, there's the problem of love, which Norman Rush anatomizes in all its hopeless splendor in a novel that would have delighted Milton, Nabokov, and Graham Greene.

Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Norman Rush
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 07/13/2004
ISBN: 9780679737117
Pages: 736
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.22w x 1.28d

Review Citations: New York Times 07/18/2004 pg. 20
New Yorker (The) 06/09/2008 pg. 86
At once a political adventure, a portrait of a passionate but imperiled marriage, and an acrobatic novel of ideas, Mortals marks Norman Rush's return to the territory he has made his own, the southern African nation of Botswana. Nobody here is entirely what he claims to be. Ray Finch is not just a middle-aged Milton scholar but a CIA agent. His lovely and doted-upon wife Iris is also a possible adulteress. And Davis Morel, the black alternative physician who is treating her--while undertaking a quixotic campaign to de-Christianize Africa--may also be her lover.

As a spy, the compulsively literate Ray ought to have no trouble confirming his suspicions. But there's the distraction of actual spying. Most of all, there's the problem of love, which Norman Rush anatomizes in all its hopeless splendor in a novel that would have delighted Milton, Nabokov, and Graham Greene.

Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Norman Rush
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 07/13/2004
ISBN: 9780679737117
Pages: 736
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.22w x 1.28d

Review Citations: New York Times 07/18/2004 pg. 20
New Yorker (The) 06/09/2008 pg. 86