Forde Abroad |
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| Author:
| Metcalf, John |
| ISBN: | 978-0-88984-266-3 |
| Publication Date: | May 2003 |
| Publisher: | Porcupine's Quill, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $14.95 |
Book Description:
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`The sequel to the short story ``Travelling Northward'', Forde Abroad by John Metcalf (Senior Editor of The Porcupine's Quill) is a superbly crafted short novel that again presents Robert Forde, a writer, aesthete, and henpecked husband (Robert's loving wife rather insistently prefers him to drink tea instead of coffee because it's ``better for his health''). Forde Abroad brings Robert from his Ottawa home to Ljubljana in order to attend a meeting of the Literary and...
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`The sequel to the short story ``Travelling Northward'', Forde Abroad by John Metcalf (Senior Editor of The Porcupine's Quill) is a superbly crafted short novel that again presents Robert Forde, a writer, aesthete, and henpecked husband (Robert's loving wife rather insistently prefers him to drink tea instead of coffee because it's ``better for his health''). Forde Abroad brings Robert from his Ottawa home to Ljubljana in order to attend a meeting of the Literary and Cultural Association of Slovenia. Quirky and engaging personalities range from a professional Serbian language translator, to a gay British expatriate from Sweden who is a Yugoslavian expert, to Forde's longstanding literary correspondent Karla. A literate and thoroughly entertaining story fill the pages of this engaging, brief, and highly recommended work of original fiction.'