Mating: A Novel (National Book Award Winner) -- Norman Rush, Paperback

The narrator of this splendidly expansive novel of high intellect and grand passion is an American anthropologist at loose ends in the South African republic of Botswana. She has a noble and exacting mind, a good waist, and a busted thesis project. She also has a yen for Nelson Denoon, a charismatic intellectual who is rumored to have founded a secretive and unorthodox utopian society in a remote corner of the Kalahari--one in which he is virtually the only man. What ensues is both a quest and an exuberant comedy of manners, a book that explores the deepest canyons of eros even as it asks large questions about the good society, the geopolitics of poverty, and the baffling mystery of what men and women really want.

Author: Norman Rush
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 09/01/1992
Pages: 496
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.82lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.20w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780679737094
Award: National Book Awards - Winner

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 06/29/1992

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.