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| The Gravity of Sunlight |
Nominated ISBN: 1569471924 |
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| Rosa Shand | ||
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| San Antonio Public Library, San Antonio, U.S.A |
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ABOUT THE
BOOK
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Fidelity is strained in the heated atmosphere that surrounds the expatriates who teach at the college in Kampala in the '70s. Agnes's husband, John, tells her she can will herself to remain in love with him, but she doesn't think she can. Then an attractive new arrival captures her imagination; the distance from her imagination to her heart is not far. The locals observe, sympathising and despising. While looming over all is the imminent ascension to power of General Idi Amin. |
| ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
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Rosa
Shand is
the Larrabee Professor of English at Converse College in Spartanburg,
South Carolina, U.S. She lived in Uganda for ten years. More than thirty
of her stories have been published in literary reviews. Three appeared
in a prize-winning collection entitled New Southern Harmonies: Four
Emerging Fiction Writers. The Gravity of Sunlight
is her first novel.
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