{"product_id":"mating-isbn-9780679737094","title":"Mating","description":"\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER •  Is love between equals possible? This modern classic is a delightful intellectual love story that explores the deepest canyons of romantic love even as it asks large questions about society, geopolitics, and the mystery of what men and women really want.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Luminous . . . Few books evoke the state of love at its apogee.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e“The best rendering of erotic politics . . . since D.H. Lawrence. . . . The voice of Rush’s narrator is immediate, instructive and endearing.”—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eThe 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 compelling 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat ensues is an exhilarating quest and an exuberant comedy of manners: “A dryly comic love story about grown-up people who take the life of the mind seriously.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e“Exhilarating…vigorous and luminous…Few books evoke the state of love at its apogee.” \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e–The New York Times Book Review \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The best rendering of erotic politics…since D.H. Lawrence…a marvelous novel, one in which a resolutely independent voice claims new imaginative territory…The voice of Rush’s narrator is immediate, instructive and endearing.” \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e–The New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Witty, raunchy…prodigiously aspiring…a remarkable book…His protagonist is a memorable female character: a continually shifting prism that revolves from dashing to needy, from witty to morose…wonderfully varied and pungent.”\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e –Los Angeles Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “A dryly comic love story about grown-up people who take the life of the mind seriously and know they sometimes sound silly…\u003ci\u003eMating\u003c\/i\u003e is state-of-the-art artifice.” \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e–Newsweek\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“It draws the reader steadily in. Not toward the heart of darkness but toward brilliant illumination.”\u003cb\u003e \u003ci\u003e-The New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Bold and ambitious…delightful, provocative.”\u003ci\u003e \u003cb\u003e–San Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Brilliantly written…utterly sui generis!...Rush has alerted us to the transfiguring power of passion…He deploys the narrative voice with…brio…wit and persuasiveness.”\u003ci\u003e \u003cb\u003e–Mirabella\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “An audaciously clever novel with substance as well as flash.”\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e –Detroit Free Press\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eNorman Rush\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of four works of fiction: \u003ci\u003eWhites\u003c\/i\u003e, a collection of stories, and three novels, \u003ci\u003eSubtle Bodies, Mating,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMortals.\u003c\/i\u003e His stories have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eBest American Short Stories\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eMating\u003c\/i\u003e was the recipient of the National Book Award. Rush and his wife live in Rockland County, New York.National Book Award Winner","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304694599909,"sku":"NP9780679737094","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780679737094.jpg?v=1767732418","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/mating-isbn-9780679737094","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}