Waxwings / Jonathan Raban.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Raban, Jonathan.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

British--Washington (State)--Fiction.

Repairing trades--Fiction.

Repairing trades.

British.

Seattle (Wash.)--Fiction.

Noncitizens--Fiction.

Illegal immigration--Fiction.

Noncitizens.

Washington (State).

Immigrants--Fiction.

Immigrants.

Authors--Fiction.

Authors.

Genre:

Fiction.

Psychological fiction.

Humorous fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

281 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First Vintage Books edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Vintage Books, 2004.

Summary:

Jonathan Raban's powerful novel is set in Seattle in 1999, at the height of its infatuation with the virtual. It's a place that attracts immigrants. One of these is Tom Janeway, a bookish Hungarian-born Englishman who makes his living commenting on American mores on NPR. Another, who calls himself Chick, is a frenetically industrious illegal alien from China who makes his living any way he can. Through a series of extraordinary but chillingly plausible events, the paths of these newcomers converge. Tom is uprooted from his marriage and must learn to father his endearing eight-year old son part-time. Chick claws his way up from exploited to exploiter. Meanwhile Seattle is troubled by rioting anarchists, vanishing children, and the discovery of an al-Qaeda operative; it is a city on the brink. Savage and tender, visionary and addictively entertaining, Waxwings is a major achievement.

ISBN:

0375709053

9780375709050

OCLC:

56702032