Bibliograph

Leaving before the rains come, Alexandra Fuller

Type

Label

Leaving before the rains come, Alexandra Fuller

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Leaving before the rains come

Oclc number

900011262

Responsibility statement

Alexandra Fuller

Summary

The author of Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight traces her post-divorce confrontation of an upbringing in Africa that was overshadowed by the Rhodesian wars, her complicated parents and her courtship with her ex-husband. --Publisher's description

Table Of Contents

And away we fly -- Madness in prescribed doses -- Decisions by Dionysus -- Mr. adventure's immunity -- Marital advice from a mildly stoned cook -- Marriage vows in the time of malaria -- Continental drift -- Marriage advice from the end of the world -- Signal flags -- The midday sun -- Last call on the African queen -- This grand inheritance -- Marriage in the time of cholera -- Babies in the time of yellow fever -- Mad beans, time, and ghosts -- The river runner and the rat race -- Fortune teller fish -- Falling -- Broken -- Cry for a whole people

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