Waxwings jonathan raban biography

2003 novel by Jonathan Raban

Waxwings 2003 is the second novel by Jonathan Raban

Ideas for the novel

Raban muses over the idea for a Seattle-based novel near the end of his American road trip in Hunting Mister Heartbreak.

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Whilst sailing on Lake Union, he portrays himself as a fictional writer called Rainbird who, in toying with the idea for a novel, invents a character called Woon Soo Rhee. Woon Soo Rhee materializes as Chick in Waxwings:

Rainbird was keen on Woon Soo. His face would be a reef-knot of bunched muscle. His furious hands would fill the gaps of his fractured, F.O.B.

American English.

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His body would be like the kind of steel spring that tough guys use to strengthen their hands. Woon Soo would be a creature of tragic aggression. (p. 361)

The main themes running through the novel are Tom Janeaway's parental love for his son, the bubble of the Internet boom, and the characters' mistaken identities. Janeaway himself is confused abou