The Year of the Hare
Arto Paasilinna$13.60
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An internationally bestselling comic novel in which a man--with the help of a bunny--suddenly realizes what's important in life
"Escapism at its best . . . Just pure fun." --NPR.org "Which of us has not had that wonderfully seditious idea: to play hooky for a while from life as we know it?" With these words from his foreword, Pico Iyer puts his finger on the exhilaratingly anarchic appeal of The Year of the Hare, a novel in the bestselling tradition of Watership Down, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, and Life of Pi. While out on assignment, a journalist hits a hare with his car. This small incident becomes life-changing: he decides to quit his job, leave his wife, sell his possessions, and spend a year wandering the wilds of Finland--with the bunny as his boon companion. What ensues is a series of comic misadventures, as everywhere they go--whether chased up a tree by dogs, or to a formal state dinner, or in pursuit of a bear across the Finnish border with Russia--they leave mayhem (and laughter ) in their wake.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 12/28/2010
ISBN: 9780143117926
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 7.60h x 5.00w x 0.70d
Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 11/08/2010
Library Journal 11/15/2010 pg. 61
Shelf Awareness 01/01/0001
BookPage 01/01/2011
"Escapism at its best . . . Just pure fun." --NPR.org "Which of us has not had that wonderfully seditious idea: to play hooky for a while from life as we know it?" With these words from his foreword, Pico Iyer puts his finger on the exhilaratingly anarchic appeal of The Year of the Hare, a novel in the bestselling tradition of Watership Down, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, and Life of Pi. While out on assignment, a journalist hits a hare with his car. This small incident becomes life-changing: he decides to quit his job, leave his wife, sell his possessions, and spend a year wandering the wilds of Finland--with the bunny as his boon companion. What ensues is a series of comic misadventures, as everywhere they go--whether chased up a tree by dogs, or to a formal state dinner, or in pursuit of a bear across the Finnish border with Russia--they leave mayhem (and laughter ) in their wake.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 12/28/2010
ISBN: 9780143117926
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 7.60h x 5.00w x 0.70d
Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 11/08/2010
Library Journal 11/15/2010 pg. 61
Shelf Awareness 01/01/0001
BookPage 01/01/2011