Could it be the cult classic "Islandia", by Austin Tappan Wright?
Here's the product description from Amazon (I'm off to work or I'd write one
out!):
Product Description:
On his death, Austin Tappan Wright left the world a wholly unsuspected
legacy. Among this distinguished legal scholar's papers were thousands of
pages devoted to a staggering feat of literary creation - a detailed history
of an imagined country complete with geography, genealogy, representations
from its literature, language and culture. In a monumental labor of love
Wright's wife and daughter culled from this material a thousand page novel,
as detailed as J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth. Islandia has similarly become
a classic touchstone for those concerned with the creation of imaginary
worlds.
Islandia occupies the southern portion of the Karain Continent, which lies
in the Southern Hemisphere. Its civilization is an ancient one, protected
from outside intervention by a natural fortress of towering mountains. To
this isolated country - this alien, compelling and totally fascinating
world - comes John Lang, the American consul. As the reader lives with Lang
in Islandia, as he comes to know this magnetic land, its unique people, its
strange customs, he may find himself experiencing a feeling of envy, a wish
that he, like Lang, be permitted, at the book's end, to return once more and
spend the rest of his days in Islandia.
Cathy Marciniak
Fuller Public Library
Hillsboro NH 03244
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> Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 21:24:37 -0800
> From: Diane Van Gorden <dkvg3955@YAHOO.COM>
> Subject: GEN: Need Book Title
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> Dear LM_NET Friends
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> Tonight, my monthly book discussion group (sponsored
> by the local public library) met to discuss Lowry's
> _The Giver._
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> The group moderator remembers reading a novel about a
> future world with a uptopian society in which people
> worked until noon at something for the good / benefit
> the community. From noon on, the people worked at
> things to express their creative self / artistic
> expression. She cannot remember the title of the book
> but said it was quite popular about 40 years ago.
> Does anyone recall what this novel might be?
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> I'll post a hit with the answers I get.
> Thanks!
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