Composed of a series of letters between a husband and wife, ?"The Sinking of the Odradek Stadium"?is a brilliant comedy about love and longing, dashed hopes and frustrations, and trying to make connections. Newly wedded Zachary McCaltex (a librarian in Miami) and Twang Panattapam (originally from the Southeast-Asian country of Pan-Nam, but residing in Italy) try to trace the whereabouts of a treasure supposedly lost off the coast of Florida in the sixteenth century, while navigating a relationship separated by an ocean as ...
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Composed of a series of letters between a husband and wife, ?"The Sinking of the Odradek Stadium"?is a brilliant comedy about love and longing, dashed hopes and frustrations, and trying to make connections. Newly wedded Zachary McCaltex (a librarian in Miami) and Twang Panattapam (originally from the Southeast-Asian country of Pan-Nam, but residing in Italy) try to trace the whereabouts of a treasure supposedly lost off the coast of Florida in the sixteenth century, while navigating a relationship separated by an ocean as well as their different cultures. In the end, the postal service may be responsible for what gets lost (including Zachary's sanity) along the way.
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Seller's Description:
Very good in very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 198 p. Audience: General/trade. Clean, unmarked pages. Cover shows some fading, but no creases or tears.
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Seller's Description:
Fine in Near Fine jacket. First English edition. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a scratch mark on the cover. Originally published in 1971-1972 by *The Paris Review* and in 1975 with two other novels in *The Sinking of the Odradek Stadium and Other Novels.*.
