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- Samuel Johnson
(1709 - 1784)
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ZIN Product Number: 10083181
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374105057
Release Date: Jan 7, 1997
Average Reader Review:  (Based on 2 reviews.)
| |  | | | In Brief
Alexander Fox, the narrator of this novel, "had once read a book set in Andorra (written, as it happens, by an author who had never been there), which triggered his imagination so much that when personal tragedy strikes, he decides to flee to this Andorra himself, hoping to leave his memories and his past behind. Once there, he encounters an eccentric cast of . . . characters--from the kayaking matriarch Sophonsobia Quay, to the . . . Dents, an Australiancouple fleeing their own demons, to the elderly Mrs. Reinhardt, who had been a friend of Rose Macaulay, the author of the book set in Andorra. He also finds, to his dismay, that he cannot entirely escape his past." (Libr J)
| | | | From The Publisher
After a devastating personal tragedy, a man leaves the United States to begin life abroad. The country in which he finds himself is inordinately influenced by his imagination, and the events there are eerily reminiscent of his past, especially when he begins to fall in love with two women simultaneously. Andorra is a small country, populated (almost exclusively) by the ancient Mrs. Reinhardt, who outlives her lifetime lease on the penthouse of the Hotel Excelsior; the Dents, an Australian couple who share a first name, a huge dog, and a secret; Sophonsobia Quay, the kayaking matriarch of the powerful Quay family; her two beautiful but troubled daughters; Esmeralda St. Pitt, who runs a boardinghouse for those with impeccable moral credentials; Ali, the fatalistic purveyor of coffee; and Alexander Fox, who finds himself not only in a foreign country but also in a crisis of faith, conscience, and identity.
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 | | | | | Number of Reviews: 2 Average Rating:
Breathtaking!
-- Vere, someone who likes the classics, August 19, 2002
Breathtaking!
-- Vere, someone who likes the classics, August 19, 2002
| | | | The Reader's Catalog
After a devastating personal tragedy, Alexander Fox finds himself in a foreign country strangely influenced by his imagination and unusually populated by events from his past. Andorra is a sinisterly beautiful novel about deceit, desire, and the persistence of memory by one of our slyest prose stylists.
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