The Rain Forest
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Set on a lush and politically volatile tropical island, The Rain Forest is a tautly observed novel of marriage, desire, and disillusionment. Olivia Manning — best known for her sweeping The Balkan Trilogy — chronicles the arrival of a young British couple, Hugh and Anne Foster, on the fictional island of Al-Bustan, where the oppressive heat and encroaching jungle mirror the slow decay of their relationship. With the same cool, precise prose that distinguished her wartime sagas, Manning presents a world of colonial twilight, simmering unrest, and human frailty, where the exotic landscape becomes both refuge and trap. The novel argues that love and loyalty are as fragile as the hothouse beauty surrounding them, rendered with quiet intensity and an unflinching eye for social hypocrisy.
Author: Olivia Manning
Format: Paperback
Published: 1977, Penguin
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Set on a lush and politically volatile tropical island, The Rain Forest is a tautly observed novel of marriage, desire, and disillusionment. Olivia Manning — best known for her sweeping The Balkan Trilogy — chronicles the arrival of a young British couple, Hugh and Anne Foster, on the fictional island of Al-Bustan, where the oppressive heat and encroaching jungle mirror the slow decay of their relationship. With the same cool, precise prose that distinguished her wartime sagas, Manning presents a world of colonial twilight, simmering unrest, and human frailty, where the exotic landscape becomes both refuge and trap. The novel argues that love and loyalty are as fragile as the hothouse beauty surrounding them, rendered with quiet intensity and an unflinching eye for social hypocrisy.