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The life to come / / Michelle de Kretser
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Crow Nest, NSW ::
©2017 Allen & Unwin,,
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375 pages ; : 24 cm. ;
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Set in Sydney, Paris and Sri Lanka, The Life to Come is a mesmerising novel about the stories we tell and don't tell ourselves as individuals, as societies and as nations. It feels at once firmly classic and exhilaratingly contemporary. Pippa is a writer who longs for success. Celeste tries to convince herself that her feelings for her married lover are reciprocated. Ash makes strategic use of his childhood in Sri Lanka but blots out the memory of a tragedy from that time. Driven by riveting stories and unforgettable characters, here is a dazzling meditation on intimacy, loneliness and our flawed perception of other people. Profoundly moving as well as bitingly funny, The Life to Come reveals how the shadows cast by both the past and the future can transform, distort and undo the present. This extraordinary novel by Miles Franklin-winning author Michelle de Kretser will strike to your soul. '...one of those rare writers whose work balances substance with style. Her writing is very witty, but it also goes deep, informed at every point by a benign and far-reaching intelligence.' Kerryn Goldsworthy, Sydney Morning Herald '...a dazzlingly accomplished author who commands all the strokes. Her repertoire stretches from a hallucinatory sense of place to a mastery of suspense, sophisticated verbal artistry and a formidable skill in navigating those twisty paths where history and psychology entwine.' Boyd Tonkin, Independent.
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Winner Miles Franklin Literary Award 2018.
Subject
Loneliness -- Fiction
Perception -- Fiction
Life -- Fiction
Interpersonal relations -- Fiction
Australian authors -- Fiction
General fiction
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Australian authors -- Fiction
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General fiction
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Interpersonal relations -- Fiction
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Life -- Fiction
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Loneliness -- Fiction
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Perception -- Fiction
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