Description for Waxwings
hardcover. Signed by the author. Good clean copy showing light age and shelfwear. Light nicks & tears to dust jacket
The first of a series of three novels set in the Pacific North-West, Waxwings is a masterpiece In Seattle at the turn of the millennium, two hopeful new immigrants are drawn to Seattle by their own different versions of the American Dream. For Tom Janeway - a Hungarian-born Englishman most at home with books - it is the chance for family he thought he'd never have. For an illegal alien - Chick, as he comes to call himself not long after escaping a cargo container - it is a land of opportunity that is his for the taking. With the ... Read more
The first of a series of three novels set in the Pacific North-West, Waxwings is a masterpiece In Seattle at the turn of the millennium, two hopeful new immigrants are drawn to Seattle by their own different versions of the American Dream. For Tom Janeway - a Hungarian-born Englishman most at home with books - it is the chance for family he thought he'd never have. For an illegal alien - Chick, as he comes to call himself not long after escaping a cargo container - it is a land of opportunity that is his for the taking. With the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Picador London
Condition
Used, Very Good
Signed by the author
Yes
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780330413206
SKU
KMO0000705
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Jonathan Raban
Jonathan Raban was the author of over a dozen books, both fiction and non-fiction, including Passage to Juneau, Bad Land, Hunting Mister Heartbreak, Coasting, Old Glory, Arabia, Soft City, Waxwings and Surveillance. Over the span of six decades, he won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Royal Society of Literature’s Heinemann Award, the Thomas Cook Award, the PEN West ... Read more
Reviews for Waxwings
The author of Bad Land and other impressive novels has come up with an exciting new one which promises to be the first of a series of three books set in the Pacific North-West. The two main protagonists are Tom Janeway, a Hungarian-born Englishman living in Seattle with his wife Beth and son Finn, and an illegal alien known as ... Read more