| "It is a magnificent frolic." J B Priestley |
Set in the year before the Wall Street crash, this book is a classic evocation of the final mania of prohibition, as seen through equally maverick British eyes. The character Eric Linklater devised to be his unreliable explorer was one capable of absorbing the enormity of the American experience without being overwhelmed by its incongruities. A blithe, bastard descendent of Byron's Don Juan, Linklater's Juan is an antihero with a taste for the grotesque and the ridiculous, at once both dirty and deity whose response when faced either with sudden catastrophe or miraculous survival is simply to laugh. A novel in the mode of the picaresque, this is a story of erotic discovery in the sense, as Juan puts it, that 'your trousers hide not only your nakedness but your kinship to the clown.'
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January 1983 : Hardback
| Title: Juan in America Author(s): Eric Linklater Publisher: Macdonald Publishers Availability: Amazon More details... |
1983 : Hardback
| Title: Juan in America Author(s): Eric Linklater ISBN: 0-86334-015-6 / 978-0-86334-015-4 (UK edition) Publisher: Macdonald Publishers Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
1953 : Hardback
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1949 : Hardback
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1946 : Hardback
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January 1945 : Hardback
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1943 : Hardback
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January 1942 : Hardback
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January 1938 : Hardback
| Title: Juan In America Author(s): Eric Linklater Publisher: The Albatross Availability: Amazon UK More details... |
1936 : Hardback
| Title: JUAN IN AMERICA Author(s): ERIC LINKLATER Publisher: Cape Availability: Amazon UK More details... |
January 1935 : Hardback
| Title: Juan in America. A Novel. Author(s): Eric Linklater Publisher: Jonathan Cape Availability: Amazon UK More details... |
January 1933 : Hardback
| Title: JUAN IN AMERICA Author(s): Eric Linklater Publisher: Jonathan Cape Limited Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
January 1931 : Hardback
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Paperback Editions
December 2008 : Paperback
| Title: Juan in America (Capuchin Classics) Author(s): Eric Linklater Publisher: Capuchin Classics Availability: Amazon More details... |
September 2008 : Paperback
| Title: Juan in America (Capuchin Classics) Author(s): Eric Linklater ISBN: 0-9557312-4-0 / 978-0-9557312-4-2 (UK edition) Publisher: Capuchin Classics Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
March 1987 : Mass Market Paperback
| Title: Juan in America (Modern Classics) Author(s): Eric Linklater ISBN: 0-14-008503-3 / 978-0-14-008503-7 (UK edition) Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
1965 : Paperback
| Title: Juan in America Author(s): Eric Linklater Publisher: Panther Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
1958 : Paperback
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January 1956 : Mass Market Paperback
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1948 : Paperback
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January 1931 : Paperback
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Other Editions
1965 : Unknown
| Title: Juan in America (Panther Books. no. 1917.) Author(s): Eric Robert Russell Linklater Availability: Amazon UK More details... |
1956 : Unknown
| Title: Juan in America (Penguin Books. no. 1143.) Author(s): Eric Robert Russell Linklater Availability: Amazon UK More details... |
1956 : Unknown
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1937 : Unknown
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1931 : Unknown
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1931 : Unknown
| Title: Juan in America. A novel Author(s): Eric Robert Russell Linklater Availability: Amazon UK More details... |
1931 : Unknown
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