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Serendib
Jim Toner
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Description for Serendib
Hardcover. When John Toner, a retired Cleveland judge, decided in 1990 to spend a month with his son in war-torn Sri Lanka, he was as much a stranger to his seventh child as to the hardships of life in a third world country. This is a chronicle of the month they spent together in the poorest of conditions. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKS; 2ABM; BG; FA; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 417.
I didn't invite him. The idea was all my father's, my seventy-four-year-old father who had never been outside America and who suddenly thought that Sri Lanka, where I was a Peace Corps volunteer, would be a jolly place to visit. When John Toner, a retired Cleveland judge, decided on a whim in April 1990 to spend a month with his son in war-torn Sri Lanka, he was as much a stranger to his seventh - and last - child as he was to the hardships of life in a Third World country. Serendib chronicles the journey that follows as a ... Read more
I didn't invite him. The idea was all my father's, my seventy-four-year-old father who had never been outside America and who suddenly thought that Sri Lanka, where I was a Peace Corps volunteer, would be a jolly place to visit. When John Toner, a retired Cleveland judge, decided on a whim in April 1990 to spend a month with his son in war-torn Sri Lanka, he was as much a stranger to his seventh - and last - child as he was to the hardships of life in a Third World country. Serendib chronicles the journey that follows as a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Georgia, United States
ISBN
9780820322698
SKU
V9780820322698
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About Jim Toner
Jim Toner lives in Sonora, California, and teaches English at Columbia College.
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