“The sort of book friends
press in your hands and say, ‘You must read this.’”
—St.
Louis Post-Dispatch |
“Isak Dinesen ... Rebecca
West ... Gertrude Stein and Edith Wharton. To this company, in the tradition
of Hemingway and others, and in many ways as brilliant as the best of them,
we must now add Maria Thomas.”
—Marianne
Wiggins, The New York
Times Book Review |
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Chosen as a New York Times Notable Book when it was first published in 1991,
this book collects a novella and six stories about Africa, particularly Ethiopia,
and the lives of different women there.
Maria Thomas wrote three books: Antonia
Saw the Oryx First (1987), Come to Africa and Save
Your Marriage (1987) and African Visas (1991), all originally published by Soho Press. Born and raised in the United
States, she spent much of her adult life in Africa. She died in a plane crash
in Ethiopia in 1989 while accompanying a Texas congressman on a mission to
a refugee camp. The Returned Peace Corps Volunteers Literary Award is named
in her honor.
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