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Girls at Play
Girls at Play
Author: Paul Theroux
This novel, set in the green chaos of East Africa, concerns the ambitions of three women, teachers at a remote girls’ school. They are the only white women in this region, and each is in her way doomed. — Miss Poole, the Headmistress, was born in Africa and cannot live anywhere else. A colonial, she wants desperately to order the soc...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780345257543
ISBN-10: 0345257545
Publication Date: 6/12/1978
Pages: 210
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Publisher: Ballantine Books
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio Cassette
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In the sun-scorched bush of East Africa, surrounded by the ominous & brooding jungle, three single women teachers struggle to realize their own individual visions. Trapped in loneliness, mystified by their inscrutable "host nationals", they fight for the delicate balance between the ideal & the real, between fantasy & survival.


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