The Long Day Wanes: A Malayan Trilogy (The Norton Library)
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Book Info
Author
Burgess, Anthony
Word Count
129,000 words
based on page count
Pages
516 pages
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Edition Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Edition Publish Date
1993-01-01
Identifiers
ISBN-10: 0393309436
ISBN-13: 9780393309430
Description
Set in postwar Malaya at the time when people and governments alike are bemused and dazzled by the turmoil of independence, this three-part novel is rich in hilarious comedy and razor-sharp in observation. The protagonist of the work is Victor Crabbe, a teacher in a multiracial school in a squalid village, who moves upward in position as he and his wife maintain a steady decadent progress backward. A sweetly satiric look at the twilight days of colonialism.
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