Meidav explores the tragedy of colonialism in an epic first novel of stirring intensity. It's 1936, the world is sliding into war, and Henry Fyre Gould has left behind the salons and sheepish spiritualists of New York City for the British Colony of Ceylon. Expecting to win the people's hearts, Henry instead begins to slowly unravel on a hallucinatory journey through madness and ultimately to salvation.
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Meidav explores the tragedy of colonialism in an epic first novel of stirring intensity. It's 1936, the world is sliding into war, and Henry Fyre Gould has left behind the salons and sheepish spiritualists of New York City for the British Colony of Ceylon. Expecting to win the people's hearts, Henry instead begins to slowly unravel on a hallucinatory journey through madness and ultimately to salvation.
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Add this copy of The Far Field: a Novel of Ceylon to cart. $3.03, fair condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Baltimore rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Halethorpe, MD, UNITED STATES, published 2001 by Houghton Mifflin.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Ex-Library Hard Cover--VG/VG--Ex-Library--Book and dust jacket show only light wear--584 pages--First Edition w/full # string and original price of 25.00 present.
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Fine copy in fine dust jacket: just trivial rubbing to front corner points. Lge. 8vo 9 1/4"x 5 3/4 " off-white cloth w/ gilt spine lettering; tan paper boards, yellow-tan endpapers; 584 pgs; "A Novel of Ceylon"; illus dust jacket w/ $25.00 listed on front flap; author's first novel. quotes by Claire Messud, Paul West, Martha McPhee & Walter Abish on back cover. jacket design by Beth Middleworth.
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Near Fine in Very Good jacket. Book Octavo, hardcover, near fine, clean and unmarked, in VG beige and green decorative dj. First Edition. First printing. Gold boards, cream quarter linen, gilt to spine. Meidav's debut novel, about Ceylon 584 pages. Meidan is an American who resided in Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon), where, on a Fulbright scholarship, she studied languages, the area's culture, and did research.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 6x1x9; Minor shelf wear to binding. Light wear & soiling on edges of text block. Text and images unmarked. The dust jacket shows some light handling, in a mylar cover.
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