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Leaving Before the Rains Come
Alexandra Fuller
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Description for Leaving Before the Rains Come
Paperback. In 1992 the author embarked on a new journey, into a long, tempestuous marriage to Charlie Ross, the love of her life. In this memoir, she charts their twenty years together, from the brutal beauty of the Zambezi to the mountains of Wyoming - the new adventures, the unexplored paths, and the many signals that they missed along the way. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFMZ; 1KBBWY; BM; DN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
The sequel to the bestselling Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight
Born in England and uprooted to southern Africa as a toddler by her parents, Alexandra Fuller experienced a unique upbringing – both coloured with tragedy and joy – against the backdrop of the Rhodesian wars. Following her marriage to American Charlie Ross, she leaves Africa for Wyoming in the United States. This sequel to the bestselling Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight vividly captures the highs, lows and ultimate dissolution of Fuller’s twenty-year marriage and her unbreakable tie to her African past as she searches for ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784700591
SKU
V9781784700591
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-47
About Alexandra Fuller
Alexandra Fuller is the author of four memoirs, including Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight – a New York Times Notable Book for 2002, the 2002 Booksense Best Non-Fiction book, a finalist for the Guardian’s First Book Award and the winner of the 2002 Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize – and the New York Times-bestselling Cocktail Hour Under the Tree ... Read more
Reviews for Leaving Before the Rains Come
Remarkable, beautifully written and fantastically entertaining… a compulsive read
Observer
[An] honest, powerful and moving memoir
Kate Figes
Mail on Sunday
[An] urgent, eloquently fearless book
Guardian
[A] bold, brave memoir of [Fuller’s] emancipation from the past
The Times
Fuller doesn’t write misery memoirs. She writes warm, humorous and honest memoirs, ... Read more
Observer
[An] honest, powerful and moving memoir
Kate Figes
Mail on Sunday
[An] urgent, eloquently fearless book
Guardian
[A] bold, brave memoir of [Fuller’s] emancipation from the past
The Times
Fuller doesn’t write misery memoirs. She writes warm, humorous and honest memoirs, ... Read more