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Mating: A Novel (National Book Award Winner)
Reader Score
82%
82% of readers
recommend this book
Winner:National Book Award -Fiction (1991)
Set in the African republic of Botswana--the locale of his acclaimed short story collection, "Whites" --Norman Rush's novel simultaneously explores the highest of intellectual high grounds and the most tortuous ravines of the erotic. tackles the geopolitics of poverty and the mystery of what men and women really want.
Book Details
- Publisher: Vintage
- Publish Date: Sep 1st, 1992
- Pages: 496
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.00in - 5.20in - 0.90in - 0.82lb
- EAN: 9780679737094
- Categories: • Literary• Romance - Historical - 20th Century• Cultural Heritage
About the Author
Norman Rush is the author of four works of fiction: Whites, a collection of stories, and three novels, Subtle Bodies, Mating, and Mortals. His stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and Best American Short Stories. Mating was the recipient of the National Book Award. Rush and his wife live in Rockland County, New York.
Praise for this book
"Exhilarating...vigorous and luminous...Few books evoke the state of love at its apogee." -The New York Times Book Review "The best rendering of erotic politics...since D.H. Lawrence...a marvelous novel, one in which a resolutely independent voice claims new imaginative territory...The voice of Rush's narrator is immediate, instructive and endearing." -The New York Review of Books "Witty, raunchy...prodigiously aspiring...a remarkable book...His protagonist is a memorable female character: a continually shifting prism that revolves from dashing to needy, from witty to morose...wonderfully varied and pungent." -Los Angeles Times Book Review
"A dryly comic love story about grown-up people who take the life of the mind seriously and know they sometimes sound silly...Mating is state-of-the-art artifice." -Newsweek "It draws the reader steadily in. Not toward the heart of darkness but toward brilliant illumination." -The New York Times "Bold and ambitious...delightful, provocative." -San Francisco Chronicle "Brilliantly written...utterly sui generis!...Rush has alerted us to the transfiguring power of passion...He deploys the narrative voice with...brio...wit and persuasiveness." -Mirabella "An audaciously clever novel with substance as well as flash." -Detroit Free Press
"A dryly comic love story about grown-up people who take the life of the mind seriously and know they sometimes sound silly...Mating is state-of-the-art artifice." -Newsweek "It draws the reader steadily in. Not toward the heart of darkness but toward brilliant illumination." -The New York Times "Bold and ambitious...delightful, provocative." -San Francisco Chronicle "Brilliantly written...utterly sui generis!...Rush has alerted us to the transfiguring power of passion...He deploys the narrative voice with...brio...wit and persuasiveness." -Mirabella "An audaciously clever novel with substance as well as flash." -Detroit Free Press