· The Undiscovered Country by Samantha Gillison. Grove Pr. Hardcover. GOOD. Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading. May contain limited notes, underlining or highlighting that does affect the text. Possible ex library copy, will have . "Expatriate literature" is one of my favorite genre, but I was disappointed by The Undiscovered Country by Samantha Gillison. Personal observation and experience convinces me that the story's tale of the havoc wrought upon June and Peter's relationship by geographic isolation amidst a very alien culture (i.e. life in the New Guinea bush) is /5(7). Her parents are tangled up in a marriage that will never be happy. For me, the undiscovered country in this novel describes the space between Taylor's parents and the gap between her parents and the rest of the world. Each parent was supremely irritating, impractical, inconsistent, selfish, and foolish/5.
The Undiscovered Country: A Novel, by Samantha Gillison. Owl Books. New York: Henry Holt, isbn , pages. Paper, US$ Good yarns are told when travelers return from undiscovered places. After his experiences in New Guinea in , Hume Nisbet described the land as a hibiscus blossom. Since then European impressions of. In the wave of praise that will soon greet Samantha Gillison's near-perfect novel, The King of America, much will be made of Gillison's debt to the story of Michael Rockefeller's life and disappearance. It's a debt Gillison freely acknowledges, both in the novel's back-matter and in conversation. The Undiscovered Country, and a recipient of. Author: Gillison, Samantha. The Undiscovered Country. Title: The Undiscovered Country. Publication: New York: Grove Press, May Edition: First Edition, First.
Buy The Undiscovered Country by Samantha Gillison online at Alibris. We have new and used copies available, in 2 editions - starting at $ Shop now. This story is set in the s when the country was still under the colonial control of the Australian government. However, the novel is about an American couple and their child who go to the country to do medical research -- yet it's about so much more. Her parents are tangled up in a marriage that will never be happy. For me, the undiscovered country in this novel describes the space between Taylor's parents and the gap between her parents and the rest of the world. Each parent was supremely irritating, impractical, inconsistent, selfish, and foolish.
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