An edition of Teeth of the dog: a novel (1999)

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1st ed.

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An edition of Teeth of the dog: a novel (1999)

Teeth of the dog

1st ed.

Thomas, a renowned American anthropologist, his much younger wife Helene, and Finster, a young, culturally shipwrecked AMR (American mercantile riffraff), as he's known locally, enact a tense personal drama of love and tragedy against the much larger historical drama of the Melanesian island of Vanduu, a steaming crucible where East and West, fundamentalist piety and free market fire, decay and sterility augur the future of the world.

Helene has lured Thomas to Vanduu in the desperate hope that its tropical splendor can miraculously heal the fracture that has cleaved their lives: Thomas's health is failing, and Helene simply can't accept that she might lose him. And then Finster appears - young, louche, popping up everywhere Thomas and Helene happen to be, dogging Helene like a lovesick puppy.

When a tragic mishap caused by their dance of three accidentally takes the life of a Vanduuan child, Helene, separated from both men, becomes a fugitive left to fend for herself on this troubled, surreal, inexplicably foreign speck of land in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

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Crown Publishers
Language
English
Pages
216

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Teeth of the dog: a novel
1999, Crown Publishers
in English - 1st ed.
Cover of: Teeth of the dog
Teeth of the dog
1999, Crown Publishers
in English - 1st ed.

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149,758

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216 p. cm.
Number of pages
216

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OL23263075M
Internet Archive
teethofdognovel00cime
ISBN 10
0517702029
LCCN
98026453
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2205269
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