ABOUT THIS BOOKLooking closely at a group of writers who rejected the industrial West in favor of the expatriate life and made that quest the subject of their work, Marilynn Papayanis reveals their concerns to be ethical as well as aesthetic. Her book brims with fresh insights into such works as Paul Bowles's The Sheltering Sky, Lawrence Durrell's The Alexandria Quartet, and Michael Ondaatjes The English Patient.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHYA former attorney, Marilyn Adler Papayanis received her Ph.D. from Rutgers University and teaches English at Montclair State University. She was named the winner of the 2001 Durrell Prize for New Scholarship.