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Exquisitely written, funny and hugely entertaining, Jonathan Raban’s Waxwings brilliantly captures the landscape and life of contemporary America.At the turn of the millennium, two immigrants are drawn to the United States by their own versions of the American Dream. For Tom Janeway - a Hungarian-born English intellectual most at home with his books - it's the family he thought he'd never have. For Chick - an illegal alien newly escaped from a cargo container - it's the land of plenty he imagined back in China. But for both, the New World proves surprisingly full of old ways."A tour de force. . . . In its comedy and melancholy appreciation of the human predicament in the new Millenium, this novel goes a long way toward making it bearable.” — The Washington Post Book World“Sharper (and a lot faster) than The Bonfire of the Vanities, [Waxwings] may well be one of the best accounts ever written of an American era.” — Kirkus Reviews Jonathan Raban is best known for his often unsparing autobiographical travel books which mix rivers and oceans, history, human foibles and societal change - the topics of Waxwings. His 2003 novel Waxwings introduces a disparate cast of characters, all in

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Author

Jonathan Raban

Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9780375410086

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, American Fiction

Rating

3.37 / 5 (291 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14