Hamo Langmuir flies westwards round the world to examine the effects of his miraculous high-yielding rice, leaving a bleak and impotent existence behind him. His god-daughter, Alexandra Grant, travels with her magic of myths and mysticism along the hippy trail to the East. With a wry wit Angus Wilson brings into focus their separate adventures (Quixotic in Hamo's case, dreamlike in Alexandra's) until the tragic denouement when they meet in Goa. 'Enough thought, comedy, wit, excitement and pathos to keep a dozen less ...
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Hamo Langmuir flies westwards round the world to examine the effects of his miraculous high-yielding rice, leaving a bleak and impotent existence behind him. His god-daughter, Alexandra Grant, travels with her magic of myths and mysticism along the hippy trail to the East. With a wry wit Angus Wilson brings into focus their separate adventures (Quixotic in Hamo's case, dreamlike in Alexandra's) until the tragic denouement when they meet in Goa. 'Enough thought, comedy, wit, excitement and pathos to keep a dozen less profligate and inventive novelists busy for years.' Francis King, Observer
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Add this copy of As If By Magic to cart. $6.99, fair condition, Sold by Russell Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Victoria, BC, CANADA, published 1982 by HarperCollins Distribution Services.
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Very Good in Good jacket. Size: 9x6x1; The binding is tight, top corner of the front panel lightly bumped. Text unmarked. The dust jacket shows some handling and light soiling, clipped, in a mylar cover. 8vo. 415pp.
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Good in Fair jacket. Ex-Library. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. First edition book is tight with no markings, customary attachments and markings, page edges have some soiling and tanning along with a library stamp, tape residue on boards along with some fading and soiling, dj has rubbing and soiling and some discoloration, library spine marking.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall A clean, tight hardcover copy in very good condition. Very good DJ with faint edge wear and age-toning.
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