Mating: A Novel (National Book Award Winner) (Vintage International) - Softcover

Rush, Norman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 067973709X ISBN 13: 9780679737094

Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1992

Synopsis

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER •  Is love between equals possible? This modern classic is a delightful intellectual love story that explores the deepest canyons of romantic love even as it asks large questions about society, geopolitics, and the mystery of what men and women really want.

“Luminous . . . Few books evoke the state of love at its apogee.” —The New York Times Book Review

“The best rendering of erotic politics . . . since D.H. Lawrence. . . . The voice of Rush’s narrator is immediate, instructive and endearing.”—The New York Review of Books

One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years

The narrator of this splendidly expansive novel of high intellect and grand passion is an American anthropologist at loose ends in the South African republic of Botswana. She has a noble and exacting mind, a compelling waist, and a busted thesis project. She also has a yen for Nelson Denoon, a charismatic intellectual who is rumored to have founded a secretive and unorthodox utopian society in a remote corner of the Kalahari—one in which he is virtually the only man.

What ensues is an exhilarating quest and an exuberant comedy of manners: “A dryly comic love story about grown-up people who take the life of the mind seriously.” —Newsweek

About this title

About the Author

Norman Rush is the author of four works of fiction: Whites, a collection of stories, and three novels, Subtle Bodies, Mating, and Mortals. His stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and Best American Short Stories. Mating was the recipient of the National Book Award. Rush and his wife live in Rockland County, New York.

From the Inside Flap

Set in the African republic of Botswana--the locale of his acclaimed short story collection, Whites--Norman Rush's novel simultaneously explores the highest of intellectual high grounds and the most tortuous ravines of the erotic. tackles the geopolitics of poverty and the mystery of what men and women really want.

Reviews

Readers of this National Book Award-winning novel, a BOMC alternate in cloth, will be captivated by Rush's narrator, a self-absorbed feminist anthropologist who pursues a famous social scientist in the Kalahari desert. Author tour.
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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER

&;Exhilarating . . . vigorous and luminous. . . . Few books evoke so eloquently the state of love at its apogee.&; &;The New York Times Book Review

The introduction, discussion questions, author biography, and suggested reading list that follow are designed to enhance your group&;s discussion of Norman Rush&;s National Book Award&;winning novel Mating.

Edition details

• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 067973709X
• ISBN 13: 9780679737094
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 497