The Ouroboros

By Howard Coale

Book Overview

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0899199771
• ISBN13: 9780899199771
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Ticknor & Fields
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.

Customer Reviews

An amusing look at first love

I read this and was looking around on the Web to buy it for a friend -- it took awhile. When I first read it I laughed so hard a couple of times I had to stop reading and catch my breath. This is a good book to read if you're either obsessed with someone, or you're about to go to the East, particularly Nepal. Some people might not take to the sometimes overly-metaphored language of the book at first, but keep going, because it's a very funny and excellently written first novel.

Fantastic Book

Basically, this book tells it like it is from the perspective of a love-obessed guy...on the loose in the Himalayas and Taiwan. It's one of my top ten favorite books. Hytserical, and a great read if you're about to go to Asia.

Young Man Finds Soul on Mad Dash Through the Himalayas.

An incredibly unpretentious, witty and sensitive story about one misguided young man trying to find himself in the Far East. This is one of those rare books that moves you to love its main character -- one you hate to let go of as the book comes to a close. Howard Coale is a not only a superb writer, but also has the insight and heart to communicate the deeply felt truths we all share.

An incredibly unpretentious, witty and sensitive story.

An incredibly unpretentious, witty and sensitive story about one misguided young man trying to find himself in the Far East. This is one of those rare books that moves you to love its main character -- and you hate to let go of him as the book comes to a close. Howard Coale is a not only a superb writer, but also has the insight and heart to communicate all the deeply felt truths we all share.

Superb Book

It's amazing to me that this book is out of print. It is astupendously funny first novel that I would list as one of my toptwenty favorite books. Coale is an incredible writer, and this is a great satiric novel about an innocent American in Asia. Read it if you can find it!