Cannibal is Africa from the inside--inside the head of a woman who fears that the man she loves is CIA, that the film the're supposed to make is his cover, that she might be pregnant. A haunting story of survival, Cannibal lays bare a woman's greatest hungers. Known as Good-for-Nothing by the Africans --unfit for the climate, the work, or frienship, she struggles for recognition, and for her life. What she finds, wandering the savannah for months, are the "blue people", those with AIDS who have been left to die in an ...
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Cannibal is Africa from the inside--inside the head of a woman who fears that the man she loves is CIA, that the film the're supposed to make is his cover, that she might be pregnant. A haunting story of survival, Cannibal lays bare a woman's greatest hungers. Known as Good-for-Nothing by the Africans --unfit for the climate, the work, or frienship, she struggles for recognition, and for her life. What she finds, wandering the savannah for months, are the "blue people", those with AIDS who have been left to die in an abandoned British outpost. But this is only counterpoint to her own predicament. "Trust hasn't enough syllables," she says, regarding her lover walking ahead of her. "He doesn't look at it. I can't not look, but he won't look." In Cannibal , nobody wants to look--the differences are too frightening, the truth too stark, the love too little. A step beyond Heart of Darkness , Cannibal is the virtual reality of exotic paranoia where, when the images break apart, Death grins out.
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Very good in near fine dust jacket. SIGNED by the author on the title page (signature only). 1st edition, 1st printing, complete number line. Slight shelfwear to the cap and base of the book spine. Text is marked on page 4. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 144 p. Audience: General/trade. Dust jacket has mild edgewear at the cap and base of the spine. The Bobst Prize and the Great Lakes Colleges Association First Fiction Prize-winning novel by the author of 'A Drink Called Paradise' and 'Bohemian Girl'. Rare signed. Where possible, all books come with dust jacket in a clear protective plastic sleeve, sealed in a ziplock bag, wrapped in bubble wrap, shipped in a box.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Book. Signed on Full Title Page Fist Printing. REVIEW COPY with publishers material laid in. Winner of the 1994 Elmer Holmes Bobst Award for Emerging Writers. Author of A DRINK CALLLED PARADISE. and TIN GOD.
