The escape
a novel in five parts
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Word Count
80,250 words, Guess
Page Count
321 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveescapenovelinfiv0000thir
- ISBN-100224089110
- ISBN-139780224089111
- ISBN-139780224089128
- ISBN-100224089129
and 5 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2009483829
- OCLC Control Number321014937
- Better World Books9780224089128
- Better World Books9780224089111
- Open LibraryOL23842300M
Classifications
- LCCPR6120.H575 E83 2009
- LCCPR6120.H575E83 2009
- LCCPR6120.H575
Description
In a spa town snug in the Alps, at the end of the twentieth century, the widowed 78-year-old Haffner has arrived to claim his wife's inheritance: a villa expropriated by the century's totalitarian politics. In the spa hotel, he has tried to develop a mildly successful affair with a hungrily passionate married woman; and a much less successful affair with a capricious young yoga instructor. But gradually, through the tribulations of government bureaucracy, he discovers that he wants this villa, very much. Now that he has to fight for it, he wants it. For how can you ever desert from your past, your family, your history? That has always been the problem of Haffner's life. How do you remain a libertine?
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- Fiction
Other Editions
- The escape: a novel in five parts
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