Mating (novel)

Mating
First edition
AuthorNorman Rush
Cover artist[a]
LanguageEnglish
GenreNovel
PublisherAlfred A. Knopf
Publication date
1991
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint
ISBN978-0-394-54472-4

Mating (1991) is a novel by American author Norman Rush. It is a first-person narrative by an unnamed American anthropology graduate student in Botswana around 1980. It focuses on her relationship with Nelson Denoon, a controversial American social scientist who has founded an experimental matriarchal village in the Kalahari desert.

Mating won the 1991 National Book Award for Fiction.[1] The novel experienced a resurgence of popularity in the 2020s.[2]


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  1. ^ "National Book Awards—1991". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-03-28.
    (With essays by Lee Taylor Gaffigan and Jim Shepard from the Awards 60-year anniversary blog.)
  2. ^ Solis, Marie (29 March 2023). "Is True Love Possible? Readers Are Turning to This 1990s Novel for Answers". The New York Times.

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