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Description for Foreign Parts
Paperback. Cassie and Rona. Rona and Cassie. Two women on a driving holiday in Northern France. A caustic, coruscating and deeply funny account of morality, dysfunctional relationships and women abroad, Foreign Parts is that rare hybrid: a strikingly original novel about real life, told with accuracy, compassion and a truly saturnine delight. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 23. Weight in Grams: 198. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Cassie and Rona. Rona and Cassie.
Two women on a driving holiday in Northern France.
A caustic, coruscating and deeply funny account of morality, dysfunctional relationships and women abroad, Foreign Parts is that rare hybrid: a strikingly original novel about real life, told with accuracy, compassion and a truly saturnine delight.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099453017
SKU
KTJ8038750
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Janice Galloway
Janice Galloway's first novel, The Trick is to Keep Breathing, now widely regarded as a Scottish contemporary classic, was published in 1990 and won the MIND/Allan Lane Book of the Year. Her second novel, Foreign Parts, won the American Academy of Arts and Letters EM Forster Award while her third, Clara, about the tempestuous life of nineteenth-century ... Read more
Reviews for Foreign Parts
The book reassures that no matter how many times you've done something or been somewhere, the humiliations remain as burning, the pleasure as sharp as ever
Independent
A funny, original, stinging-as-a-nettle, soothing-as-a-dockleaf read
Observer
A carefully observed, caustic portrait of two opposites - one prickly, one plodding - and their troublesome but enduring friendship
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Independent
A funny, original, stinging-as-a-nettle, soothing-as-a-dockleaf read
Observer
A carefully observed, caustic portrait of two opposites - one prickly, one plodding - and their troublesome but enduring friendship
New ... Read more