Melanie Joosten (1)
Autore di Berlin Syndrome
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Sull'Autore
Melanie Joosten is an Australian writer. She holds a Bachelor of Creative Arts (Honours), a Master of Arts (Editing) and a Master of Social Work. Berlin Syndrome (2011) was her debut novel. She was named a Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Novelist and awarded the Kathleen Mitchell Award for Young mostra altro Writers. She has also received grants from the Australia Council and Arts Victoria and residencies from Writing Australia and Varuna. She has had work published in Best Australian Stories 2014, Meanjin, Kill Your Darlings and Sleepers Almanac. Her other work include a collection of essays entitled A Long Time Coming: Essays on Ageing. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
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Informazioni generali
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- Australia
- Luogo di nascita
- Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
- Luogo di residenza
- Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Istruzione
- Loreto College
- Attività lavorative
- Social Worker
policy officer
Researcher - Relazioni
- Savanadasa,Rajith
- Organizzazioni
- National Ageing Research Institute
Seniors Rights Victoria - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Kathleen Mitchell Award
Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Novelist
Australasian Journal of Ageing Book of the Year
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 3
- Opere correlate
- 1
- Utenti
- 58
- Popolarità
- #284,346
- Voto
- 4.1
- Recensioni
- 3
- ISBN
- 15
But first, the title. I bet I’m not the only reader who Googles it to find out what it means.
And I bet I’m not the only person who doesn’t understand the significance of this title until the end of the book.
Gravity Well begins with a prologue, so the reader knows that something terrible has happened, but not what it is. Thereafter, third person narratives bring the intersecting stories of Lotte and Eve, once the best of friends but now both perilously alone. Eve is a sound engineer, captivated by the the minutiae of our world: animal, human and the built environment. Lotte is an astronomer, fascinated by the night sky, and obsessed by the quest to find new planets. Lotte and her colleagues amuse themselves by cataloguing all the gruesome ways there are to die in space. And Lotte jettisons relationships without a qualm because, well, what does it matter? we’re all just specks in the universe.
To read the rest of my review please visit https://anzlitlovers.com/2017/08/03/gravity-well-by-melanie-joosten/… (altro)