Bernard Walsh, agnostic theologian, has a professional interest in heaven. But when he travels to Hawaii with his reluctant father Jack, to visit Jack's dying, estranged sister it feels more like purgatory than paradise. Surrounded by quarrelling honeymooners, a freeloading anthropologist and assorted tourists in search of their own personal paradise, and with his father whisked off to hospital after an unfortunate accident, Bernard is beginning to regret ever coming to Haiwaii. Until, that is, he stumbles on something he ...
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Bernard Walsh, agnostic theologian, has a professional interest in heaven. But when he travels to Hawaii with his reluctant father Jack, to visit Jack's dying, estranged sister it feels more like purgatory than paradise. Surrounded by quarrelling honeymooners, a freeloading anthropologist and assorted tourists in search of their own personal paradise, and with his father whisked off to hospital after an unfortunate accident, Bernard is beginning to regret ever coming to Haiwaii. Until, that is, he stumbles on something he had given up hope of finding: the astonishing possibility of love.
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Add this copy of Paradise News to cart. $2.02, good condition, Sold by The Maryland Book Bank rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from baltimore, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1999 by Penguin Books, Limited (UK).
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Good. No Jacket. Ex Library. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Typical library markings. Boards have light wear. Pages are clean & text is free from markings. All pages secure in binding.
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London. 1991. Secker & Warburg. Reprinted Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket With Some Wrinkling At The Bottom Spine. 0436256681. 294 pages. hardcover. Jacket Design by Chris Shamwana. Jacket illustration by Paul Cox. keywords: Literature England. FROM THE PUBLISHER-The pale, unaccompanied man paddling in the blue Pacific on a thronged Waikiki Beach is obviously a stranger in this tourist paradise, and, to judge by his very British rolled-up trousers, a long way from home. Not far, though, from relations. Bernard Walsh has a kind of professional interest in paradise, but he is in Hawaii on family business, escorting a querulous parent to the bedside of a long-forgotten aunt. It is a mission that transports him from quiet obscurity in Rummidge to a lush tropical playground, from cloistered solitude into bright sunlight on the other side of all the worlds he knows. The interminable flight from Heathrow thrusts him into unfamiliar company, all consumers or connoisseurs of the package tour: honeymooners and second honeymooners, businessmen active and retired, young women looking for Mr Nice, families nuclear and fissile. But it is the island itself that holds the most astonishing surprises, as an accidental encounter opens up to Bernard possibilities of life, and love, never dreamed of in his normal overcast habitat. Bernard, whose expedition began from a sense of duty, is subjected to a series of disconcerting revelations about his family and about himself, but the greatest discovery of all is that he can rise to the challenge. He has come a long way from his childhood role as thurible bearer at Our Lady of Perpetual Succour. But then Waikiki is a long way from Rummidge. In this enchanting, wittily framed portrait of the late flowering of an honest man, David Lodge continues to expand the boundaries of comedy. inventory #40443.
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Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. Though second-hand, the book is still in very good shape. Minimal signs of usage may include very minor creasing on the cover or on the spine.
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Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. This book is in good condition but will show signs of previous ownership. Please expect some creasing to the spine and/or minor damage to the cover. Aged book. Tanned pages and age spots, however, this will not interfere with reading. Damaged cover. The cover of is slightly damaged for instance a torn or bent corner.
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