Levkas man Louis de Bernieres Her etiquette handbook guides her

Her etiquette handbook guides her through confusing social situations

Trapped between professional stagnation and personal repression

emotionally-honest prose

nearly a century later

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Levkas man Louis de Bernieres Her etiquette handbook guides herWhen his parents died, Paul was sent to Amsterdam to live with his mothers old lover, the eccentric archaeologist Pieter Van der Voort. Paul became a man in that cramped, strange house, cooped up with skeletons, fossils, and his increasingly mad guardian, who was obsessed with the search for the origins of man. Finally, Paul can take no more. He hops a freighter and spends eight years at sea before returning home to find Van der Voort goneand a