The Ivory Swing - Hardcover
During a sabbatical in India, Juliet and her professor husband, David, find their marriage breaking up
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The first novel by Australian-Canadian writer Hospital has aged well. Hospital's tale follows a Canadian family's stay in south India. Lise Rodgers captures the pace and poetry of the author's narrative and does an excellent job with the many Indian voices. Her accents not only sound genuine, but they reflect the playfulness with which Hospital treats these characters in the novel. One technical quibble: Though digitally recorded, the sound is rather poor, with more tape hiss than is tolerated comfortably. D.B. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine
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- PublisherDutton Adult
- Publication date1983
- ISBN 10 0525241701
- ISBN 13 9780525241706
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages252
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Book Description hardcover. 1st edition. New York. 1983. Dutton. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket That Is Slightly Faded Along The Spine. 0525241701. 252 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by David Gatti. Signed By the Author. keywords: Literature Australia Women. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Winner of the $50,000 Seal First Novel Award, THE IVORY SWING is an evocative story of a Canadian couple caught in personal and cultural conflict in the lush and volatile climate of contemporary South India. Seeking to escape the stultifying atmosphere of a small university town in Ontario, Juliet accompanies her husband David on a research sabbatical to southern India. There, the relentless swelter of life near the equator seizes them in a timeless drift; they become part of the life process. And, divested of familiar defences, they are vulnerable and raw. Their past experiences become reorchestrated in memory, and their life together is called into question. Their confrontation with an alien and tradition-bound culture becomes critical when they befriend Yashoda, a beautiful young widow whose life is made intolerable by the austerity of family law. Yashoda's seductive helplessness engages David and Juliet in separate but compelling ways, and their involvement in her plight draws them into a situation of terrifying consequence. Janette Turner Hospital is a superb stylist with unusual insight and a skill for sensuous description. Based on first-hand knowledge, her portrait of India is exotic and often disturbing. She has written a novel full of passion, atmosphere, and the drama of human interaction. inventory #12270 Very Good in Dustjacket That Is Slightly Faded Along The Spine. Seller Inventory # z12270
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