Leaving Before the Rains Come

Fuller, Alexandra

ISBN 10: 1594205868 / ISBN 13: 9781594205866

Edité par Penguin Press, New York, 2015

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SIGNED - Octavo. Brown boards quarterbound in a blue cloth backstrip with gilt lettering. Very faint bump at the head and tail of the spine. White endpapers. Signed by the author on the title page in black pen. Binding is straight and tight; pages all clean, white and crisp. Dust Jacket would look new were it not for a faint dime-sized abrasion on the rear cover. Very nice overall appearance.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Leaving Before the Rains Come
• Éditeur: Penguin Press, New York
• Date de parution: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1594205868
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781594205866
• Reliure: Hard Cover
• Édition: First Edition, First Printing.
• État de l'article: NF
• État de la jaquette: NF
• Signé: Signed by the Author

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Synopsis

The New York Times Bestseller from the author of Travel Light, Move Fast

"One of the gutsiest memoirs I've ever read. And the writing--oh my god the writing."—Entertainment Weekly

A child of the Rhodesian wars and daughter of two deeply complicated parents, Alexandra Fuller is no stranger to pain. But the disintegration of Fuller’s own marriage leaves her shattered. Looking to pick up the pieces of her life, she finally confronts the tough questions about her past, about the American man she married, and about the family she left behind in Africa. A breathtaking achievement, Leaving Before the Rains Come is a memoir of such grace and intelligence, filled with such wit and courage, that it could only have been written by Alexandra Fuller.

Leaving Before the Rains Come begins with the dreadful first years of the American financial crisis when Fuller’s delicate balance—between American pragmatism and African fatalism, the linchpin of her unorthodox marriage—irrevocably fails. Recalling her unusual courtship in Zambia—elephant attacks on the first date, sick with malaria on the wedding day—Fuller struggles to understand her younger self as she overcomes her current misfortunes. Fuller soon realizes what is missing from her life is something that was always there: the brash and uncompromising ways of her father, the man who warned his daughter that "the problem with most people is that they want to be alive for as long as possible without having any idea whatsoever how to live." Fuller’s father—"Tim Fuller of No Fixed Abode" as he first introduced himself to his future wife—was a man who regretted nothing and wanted less, even after fighting harder and losing more than most men could bear.

Leaving Before the Rains Come showcases Fuller at the peak of her abilities, threading panoramic vistas with her deepest revelations as a fully grown woman and mother. Fuller reveals how, after spending a lifetime fearfully waiting for someone to show up and save her, she discovered that, in the end, we all simply have to save ourselves.

An unforgettable book, Leaving Before the Rains Come is a story of sorrow grounded in the tragic grandeur and rueful joy only to be found in Fuller’s Africa.

À propos de l?auteur

ALEXANDRA FULLER was born in England in 1969. In 1972, she moved with her family to a farm in southern Africa. She lived in Africa until her midtwenties. In 1994, she moved to Wyoming.