Queen of the Air
by Claire Wheatley
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Pub Date 8 May 2018 | Archive Date 31 Aug 2018
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Description
A writer opens a laptop.
A Riviera villa. An author in the great tradition and a beautiful girl. A bizarre plot. Betrayed, he disappears.
Tiime passes. A musungu (white) "goes tropical" in a remote Ethiopian village. Chance word of new wrongs brings roars of laughter.
Marseilles. A shadowy figure lands.
Author Claire Wheatley is a West Point graduate, holds a Columbia Ph.D. and taught at Dartmouth and Princeton before serving as advisor on some fifty "third world" development projects in Africa, the Middle East, Latin America and Asia. Author of three previous novels, she currently lives in the South of France.
Keywords: Literary Novel, Riviera Writer's Betrayal, Settling Of Accounts, Ethiopian Exile, Herman Melville Influence, Henry James Influence, Vladimir Nabokov Influence, Highbrowish Retribution Theme, Seriocomic Tone
A Note From the Publisher
Available Editions
| EDITION | Ebook |
| ISBN | 9781506904849 |
| PRICE | US$4.99 (USD) |
Featured Reviews
Literary R, Reviewer
I hate to low-star any book but QUEEN OF THE AIR is not readable, at least to me, because of the disjointed writing style. Am sure early readers of William Faulkner felt the same. However, I do thank NetGalley for the ARC in exchange for my honest review.
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