title: Waxwings: A novel
author:  Jonathan Raban 
description: Jonathan Raban's <I>Waxwings</I> is a canticle for the late 1990s told through the intertwined lives of several Seattlites. In the novel, the city becomes a microcosm of America at the turn of the millennium, and Raban's characters--all in some way tragic "tourists" in the world--are rendered with a compassion that redeems their personal failings.
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  Copyright © 2019 Abbi Waxman
  
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  1988.
  
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  First published as an ebook by
  
  Headline Publishing Group in 2019
  
  All characters in this publication are fictitious and any resemblance to real
  persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
  
  Cataloguing in Publication Data is available from the British Library
  
  Cover design and illustration by Vikki Chu
  
  eISBN: 9781472266200
  
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