Jakarta, 1965. Waiting for explosions, the city smells of frangipani, kretek cigarettes, and fear. It is THE YEAR OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY. the charismatic god-king Sukarno has brought Indonesia to the edge of chaos - to an abortive revolution that will leave half a million dead. For the Western correspondents here, this gathering apocalypse is their story and their drug, while the sufferings of the Indonesian people are scarcely real: a shadow play. Working at the eye of the storm are television correspondent Guy Hamilton ...
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Jakarta, 1965. Waiting for explosions, the city smells of frangipani, kretek cigarettes, and fear. It is THE YEAR OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY. the charismatic god-king Sukarno has brought Indonesia to the edge of chaos - to an abortive revolution that will leave half a million dead. For the Western correspondents here, this gathering apocalypse is their story and their drug, while the sufferings of the Indonesian people are scarcely real: a shadow play. Working at the eye of the storm are television correspondent Guy Hamilton and his eccentric dwarf cameraman Billy Kwan. In Kwan's secret fantasy life, both Sukarno and Hamilton are heroes. But his heroes betray him, and Billy is driven to desperate action. As the Indonesian shadow play erupts into terrible reality, a complex personal tragedy of love, obsession and betrayal comes to its climax. 'A profound and beautiful book' - Les Murray, the Sydney Morning Herald 'A richly and fully realised work of fiction, well conceived and beautifully executed.' - Larry McMurtry 'Intelligent, compassionate, flavoursome, convincing ...In Billy Kwan, Mr Koch has created one of the most memorable characters of recent fiction. this book is to be prized.' - the times Literary Supplement
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Ex-Library copy with typical library marks and stamps. Dust jacket in good condition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Solid binding; Pages free of markings; Jacket housed in library mylar; Secure packaging for safe delivery.
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Octavo, 296 pages. Hard cover with dust jacket. Very good/Good. Tight binding. Age toning to pages, but the text is clean and unmarked. Light shelf wear and rubbing to boards. Dust jacket is NOT price-clipped and shows light shelf wear, but the spine is strongly sunned. Shelve with Hardcover Fiction. 1243927. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. 8vo., 296pp. Beautiful First Edition. Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no wear save. Remainder mark on the fore-edge. Very attractive unclipped dust-jacket, ($10.00), has a touch of edge-wear and a short, faint surface creases on the bottom rear panel. Spine toned as is common. Still fresh and bright with no chipping or tears. Made into the 1982 film starring Mel Gibson and Sigourney Weaver. A very pretty collectable copy.