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Sto caricando le informazioni... Forty-seventeendi Frank Moorhouse
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. This is the sort of writing Frank Moorhouse does best. Short stories, almost chapters but self-contained, connected by a thread. I hadn't read any of these stories but I had encountered the themes in other collections by Moorhouse, confidently reprised here. This book is about a man in his early forties reflecting on his life, his loves and his mistakes. Moorhouse's protagonist wanders the earth living the life of a sophisticate but inwardly empty. It was nice to see his character Edith (from Cold Light, Dark Palace and Grand Days), this time as a secondary character. Actually, this collection is probably the first connection with her: Grand Days was published in 1993, five years after this book was written. ( ) nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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What could he tell her now, now that he was forty and she was no longer seventeen? He is a failed writer turned diplomat, an anarchist learning the value of discipline. He moves in a world which takes him from the Australian wilderness to the conference rooms of Vienna and Geneva; from the whore-house to warzone he feels the pull of the genetic spiral of his ancestry. At the sharp axis of his mid-life he scans the memorabilia of his feelings in the hope of giving answers ... Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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