{"product_id":"mortals-9780679737117","title":"Mortals","description":"At once a political adventure, a portrait of a passionate but imperiled marriage, and an acrobatic novel of ideas, \u003cb\u003eMortals\u003c\/b\u003e marks Norman Rush's return to the territory he has made his own, the southern African nation of Botswana. Nobody here is entirely what he claims to be. Ray Finch is not just a middle-aged Milton scholar but a CIA agent. His lovely and doted-upon wife Iris is also a possible adulteress. And Davis Morel, the black alternative physician who is treating her--while undertaking a quixotic campaign to de-Christianize Africa--may also be her lover. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs a spy, the compulsively literate Ray ought to have no trouble confirming his suspicions. But there's the distraction of actual spying. Most of all, there's the problem of love, which Norman Rush anatomizes in all its hopeless splendor in a novel that would have delighted Milton, Nabokov, and Graham Greene.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vintage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/13\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780679737117\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 736\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.22w x 1.28d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/18\/2004 pg. 20\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Yorker (The)\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/09\/2008 pg. 86\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Norman Rush","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43049464332469,"sku":"9780679737117","price":18.7,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_0a4e4e9e-f6de-4ce8-8ea5-c2a2a0f9804b.jpg?v=1689689978","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/mortals-9780679737117","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}