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Descrizione libro Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. *Shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2020*Elizabeth posts a 'room for rent' noticein Trevor's bookshop and is caught off-guard when Trevor answers the ad himself. She expected a young student not a middle-aged bookseller whosemarriage has fallen apart. But Trevor is attracted to Elizabeth's house becauseof the empty shed in her backyard, the perfect space for him to revive theartistic career he abandoned years earlier. The face-blind, EH Holden-drivingElizabeth is a solitary and feisty book editor, and she accepts him, onprobation.Miles Franklin finalist Philip Salom has agift for depicting the inner states of his characters with empathy and insight.In this poignant yet upbeat novel the past keeps returning in the mostunexpected ways. Elizabeth is at the beck and call of her ageing mother, andthe associated memories of her childhood in a Rajneesh community. Trevor'sPolish father disappeared when Trevor was fifteen, and his mother died notknowing whether he was dead or alive. The authorities have declared him dead,but is he?TheReturnsis a story about the eccentricities, failings and small triumphs that humansare capable of, a novel that pokes fun at literary and artistic pretensions,while celebrating the expansiveness of art, kindness and friendship. 'Philip Salom.dissects the vulnerabilities of the human condition (loneliness, fear of intimacy, powerlessness, guilt), the power of the past to haunt us, the fear of the future to mire us, and the redemptive effects of love and acceptance.' Miles Franklin Award Judges on Waiting'A tour de force of sustained affection and wit.' Australian Book Review on Waiting Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Codice articolo 9781925760262
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