Beirut blues
a novel
1st Anchor Books ed.
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Author
Contributions
- Cobham, Catherine. - Contributor
Publication
1995 - Anchor Books, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
92,750 words, Guess
Page Count
371 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL1114944M
- ISBN-100385473818
- OCLC Control Number31517824
- OCLC Control Numberbeirutbluesnovel0000shay
- Library of Congress Control Number94040939
and 2 more
- LibraryThing419343
- Goodreads937271
Classifications
- DDC892/.736
- LCCPJ7862.H356 B3713 1995
Description
Asmahan writes letters - to make sense of her life and to preserve her fond memories of Beirut as it existed before civil strife destroyed it forever. Evocative, sensual, funny, and poignant, the letters - which are unlikely to ever reach their destinations - conjure up, with passion and disarming honesty, a woman's life and loves in a ravaged city, as well as her sense of being a hostage in her own country. As she writes, one story grows out of another. Vividly, passionately, and yet with clear-sighted humor, she records the astonishing details of her existence, her feelings about lovers past and present, her family, her reactions to the war and its violent social and political upheavals, as well as her relationships with other women who have responded to the chaos in radically different ways. What emerges is an intimate, engaging portrait and a delicately interwoven pattern of events and characters.
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- Beirut blues: a novel
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