Penguin Books, Summer 2012 - Bookseller Services - Penguin Group
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Photo: Ian Murphy<br />
n e w y o r k t i m e s b e s t s e l l e r<br />
Cocktail Hour Under<br />
the Tree of Forgetfulness<br />
Alexandra Fuller<br />
A story of survival and war, love and madness, loyalty and<br />
forgiveness, Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness<br />
is an intimate exploration of Fuller’s parents and of the<br />
price of being possessed by Africa’s uncompromising,<br />
fertile, death-dealing land. In this follow-up to Don’t Let’s<br />
Go to the Dogs Tonight, we accompany Tim and Nicola<br />
Fuller as they hopscotch across the continent, restlessly<br />
trying to establish a home for their family. War, hardship,<br />
and tragedy follow the Fullers even as Nicola fights to hold<br />
on to her children, her land, and her sanity. But just when<br />
it seems that she has been broken by the continent she<br />
loves, the African earth revives and nurtures her. Cocktail<br />
Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness is Alexandra Fuller<br />
at her very best.<br />
AlexAndRA fulleR was born<br />
in England in 1969. In 1972, she moved<br />
with her family to a farm in southern Africa.<br />
She lived in Africa until her midtwenties. In<br />
1994 she moved to Wyoming, where she now<br />
resides.<br />
“ Electrifying . . . Writing in<br />
shimmering, musical prose . . .<br />
[Fuller’s] own love for Africa reverberates<br />
throughout these pages, making the beauty<br />
and hazards of that land searingly real for the<br />
reader.”<br />
—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times<br />
“ Ten years after publishing Don’t Let’s Go to the<br />
Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood, Alexandra<br />
(Bobo) Fuller treats us in this wonderful<br />
book to the inside scoop on her glamorous,<br />
tragic, indomitable mother.”<br />
—The Washington Post<br />
“ Subtly explores the intersections of personality,<br />
history and landscape in ways that are<br />
continually fresh and thoughtful.”<br />
—Charleston Post and Courier<br />
“ Fuller’s prose is so beautiful and so<br />
evocative that readers will feel that they, too,<br />
are sitting under that tree.”<br />
—Booklist (starred review)<br />
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ISBN 978-0-14-750804-1 $180.00 (NCR)<br />
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