Editore: Transit Lounge Publishing, 2007
ISBN 10: 0975022865 ISBN 13: 9780975022863
Da: Housing Works Online Bookstore, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Condizione: Very Good. Minimal wear to cover. Pages clean and binding tight. Shelfwear bumped edges Paperback.
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Editore: Transit Lounge Publishing, 2012
ISBN 10: 1921924160 ISBN 13: 9781921924163
Da: Bob's Books, Tacoma, WA, U.S.A.
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Soft cover. Condizione: Fine. 1st Edition.
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Editore: Transit Lounge, 2015
ISBN 10: 1921924837 ISBN 13: 9781921924835
Da: Dave's Books, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.
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Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. May 2016 3rd paperback printing inscribed (which always means to a particular person) by the author in 2017 on the title page. Small fray/peeling of laminate on front cover, a hint of curling, else text clean, binding tight. Inscribed by Author(s).
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Editore: Transit Lounge, 2006
ISBN 10: 0975022822 ISBN 13: 9780975022825
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Trade Paperback. Condizione: Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. Good, used, solid reading copy with moderate wear, inscribed warmly 'To Jane' by the author.
Editore: Transit Lounge Publishing, 2013
ISBN 10: 1921924438 ISBN 13: 9781921924439
Da: Irish Booksellers, Portland, ME, U.S.A.
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Editore: Transit Lounge Publishing, 2009
ISBN 10: 0980461677 ISBN 13: 9780980461671
Da: AwesomeBooks, Wallingford, Regno Unito
paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Boy he Cry : An Island Odyssey This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .
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Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. Book in very good conditions. Binding remains square, cover and pages have usual signs of wear from previous reading (mainly creased corners). No markings, text block completely clear. DB.
Editore: Transit Lounge Publishing
ISBN 10: 1921924284 ISBN 13: 9781921924286
Da: AwesomeBooks, Wallingford, Regno Unito
Condizione: Very Good. This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .
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Editore: Transit Lounge Publishing, 2016
ISBN 10: 0994395779 ISBN 13: 9780994395771
Da: AwesomeBooks, Wallingford, Regno Unito
Condizione: Very Good. This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .
Editore: Transit Lounge Publishing, Yarraville, VIC, 2021
ISBN 10: 1925760693 ISBN 13: 9781925760699
Da: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Scott is in shock when his family - his father Leo, sister Natalie, the twins and their stepmother Sally - move to a rundown old house on the outskirts of town.The garden is a menacing jungle that refuses to be tamed. An ancient gnome in its midst supposedly stands guard against lurking secrets, much to Scott's disgust and Sally's delight.When strange and scary things start occurring and the creatures from the trees begin to invade the house, Scott must face the peril of an unknown force that threatens to turn their world upside down.'Gripping, suspenseful, genuinely scary - with an unexpected seam of humour running all the way through.' -Susan Green,author of theVerity Sparksseries'.a great read for horror fans, especially boys aged 11 and up, and readers who enjoyed Skulduggery Pleasant or Kenneth Oppel's The Nest.' - Dani Solomon, Books+Publishing'An eery yet at times funny story, this book kept me on the edge of my seat and even had me a little scared. The story of 13 year old Scott, who has recently lost his mum, and is dealing with relocating to a new home with his family. The house has a haunted element about it and Scott tries to grapple with what is happening around him. I loved Soon by Lois Murphy and was curious how she would transfer writing for a younger audience. This book suits a lower secondary readership and is very well written.' - Suzie Bull, Farrell's Bookshop, Victoria Scott is in shock when his family - his father Leo, sister Natalie, the twins and their stepmother Sally - move to a rundown old house on the outskirts of town. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Editore: Transit Lounge, 2009
ISBN 10: 0980461685 ISBN 13: 9780980461688
Da: Caryota Book Exchange, Darwin, NT, Australia
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Soft cover. Condizione: Good. 1st Edition. Book is in a good condition. Cover shows slight wear from reading and storage. Tanning to pages due to age. Signed by author. Signed by Author(s).
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Editore: Transit Lounge, 2010
ISBN 10: 0980571766 ISBN 13: 9780980571769
Da: HPB-Ruby, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condizione: Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!.
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Editore: Transit Lounge, 2022
ISBN 10: 1925760987 ISBN 13: 9781925760989
Da: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Regno Unito
Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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Editore: Transit Lounge Publishing, 2015
ISBN 10: 1921924810 ISBN 13: 9781921924811
Da: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condizione: Good.
Editore: Transit Lounge, 2021
ISBN 10: 1925760790 ISBN 13: 9781925760798
Da: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.95.
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Editore: Transit Lounge Publishing, Melbourne, 2014
ISBN 10: 1921924616 ISBN 13: 9781921924613
Da: Lost and Found Books, Healesville, VIC, Australia
Prima edizione
soft cover. No Jacket. 1st edition. 23 cm. 348 pages VG. Very good condition with light shelf wear to covers.
Editore: Transit Lounge, 2022
ISBN 10: 1925760944 ISBN 13: 9781925760941
Da: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Regno Unito
Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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Editore: Transit Lounge Publishing, Yarraville, Victoria, 2011
ISBN 10: 1921924136 ISBN 13: 9781921924132
Da: Syber's Books, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Prima edizione
Softcover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. shortlisted for the age book of the year, and long listed for the 2011 Miles Franklin award this is the author's 2nd novel, and there is dark, gorgeously written and emotionally resonant, a tale of family tragedy. First softcover edition. Size: Trade Paperback. 256 pages. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Literature & Literary; Australia; ISBN: 1921924136. ISBN/EAN: 9781921924132. Inventory No: 0260488.
Editore: Transit Lounge Publishing, Yarraville, VIC, 2023
ISBN 10: 0648414094 ISBN 13: 9780648414094
Da: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. A unique experience. A novel in 'spindle' sonnets. A drama. An impassioned cry for a beautiful and stolen world under threat. A 'protester' who has been living in a shallow cave in the limestone cliff in front of Bathers Beach under the colonial Round House prison in Fremantle is arrested for demonstrating against the late 80's visit of the nuclear-armed 7th Fleet. In the cells the 'protester' witnesses police violence and threatens to tell what they have seen. An act of declaration becomes entangled with what is happening outside the cells. This haunting incantation looks back before and after these events, to the present day. The sea, the coast around Fremantle, the 'Scarp', all come into play in a work that attempts to decolonise the space, to contest nuclear, military and colonial power without claiming any rights over country.'In this verse-paced novel Kinsella never quite uses Auden's phrase in The Fall of Rome - 'altogether elsewhere' - but we sense the priorities and judgement of the natural environment, and of an older world. Coastal birds and dolphins are among his observers, and we too feel the wind and ocean currents fall and rise so that, despite surveillance and silencing, we may also remember and join in bearing witness.' - Kim Scott'A book against laughter and forgetting if ever there was one. Moving, incandescent, quietly devastating.Cellnight is contemplative, fiercely elegiac, and a panoramic ode to Whadjuk Noongar country and anti-ode to its settler colonial overlay. As Kendrick Lamar said: the judge make time. So does Kinsella.' - Declan Fry'To open Cellnight is to encounter John Kinsella's cat's cradle of a verse novel - intersecting threads pulled tight and tense between prison bars, protest signs, booze bottles and warships. Feathered visitors also flit among the narrative fibres, bearing witness to the fists raised over prone and vulnerable bodies in the carceral corners of a swelling port city.' - Cass Lynch Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Editore: Transit Lounge Publishing, Yarraville, VIC, 2021
ISBN 10: 1925760677 ISBN 13: 9781925760675
Da: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. *Shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2022: UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing* Potent, haunting and lyrical, Night Blue is a debut novel like no other, a narrative largely told in the voice of the painting Blue Poles. It is a truly original and absorbing approach to revisiting Jackson Pollock and his wife Lee Krasner as artists and people, as well as a realigning our ideas around the cultural legacy of Whitlam's purchase of Blue Poles in 1973.It is also the story of Alyssa, and a contemporary relationship, in which Angela O'Keeffe immerses us in the essential power of art to change our personal lives and, by turns, a nation.Moving between New York and Australia with fluid ease, Night Blue is intimate and tender, yet surprisingly dramatic. It is a glorious exploration of how art must never be undervalued.'Intimate, sublime, this work shines.' - Favel Parrett, author of Past the Shallows and There Was Still Love'Intelligent and poignant, Night Blue traverses the boundaries between language and art in a delicious tour de force. I found it impossible to put down.'- Mette Jakobsen, author of What the Light Hides and The Vanishing Act'Miraculous . O'Keeffe gets under the skin of a painting we all thought we knew, giving it agency and voice, releasing a spirit that is by turns dreamlike, tender and ruthlessly true.'- Michael Fitzgerald, author of The Pacific Room and Piet Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Editore: Transit Lounge, Melbourne, 2020
ISBN 10: 1925760502 ISBN 13: 9781925760507
Da: Adelaide Booksellers, Clarence Gardens, SA, Australia
Prima edizione
Trade Paperback. 1st Edition. Near Fine condition. Excellent condition. 295 pages. Shortlisted for the Penguin Literary Prize. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels.
Editore: Transit Lounge, Melbourne, 2017
ISBN 10: 0995359555 ISBN 13: 9780995359550
Da: Adelaide Booksellers, Clarence Gardens, SA, Australia
Prima edizione
Trade Paperback. 1st Edition. A Near Fine copy. Excellent condition. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 240 pages. A debut novel telling the last days of Tusitala, as Robert Louis Stevenson became known in Samoa.
Editore: Transit Lounge Publishing, Yarraville, VIC, 2017
ISBN 10: 0995359555 ISBN 13: 9780995359550
Da: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. 'Do Ilook strange?'Thesewere his last recorded words. That night Sosimo kissed his hands and laid themacross his breast, knitting his fingers together like flowers. The next morningthe household watched his coffin, held aloft by a dozen brown hands, disappearinto an ocean of leaves. Every now and then, at a turn of the mountain, itwould emerge from the trees, bobbing higher and higher, floating free.Thisremarkable debut novel tells of the last days of Tusitala, 'the teller oftales', as Robert Louis Stevenson became known in Samoa where he chose to die.In 1892 Girolamo Nerli travels from Sydney by steamer to Apia, with theintention of capturing something of Jekyll and Hyde in his portrait of thefamous author. Nerli's presence sets in train a disturbing sequence of events. Morethan a century later, art historian Lewis Wakefield comes to Samoa to researchthe painting of Tusitala's portrait by the long-forgotten Italian artist. Onhiatus from his bipolar medication, Lewis is freed to confront the powerfulreality of all the desires and demons that R. L. Stevenson couldn't control.Lewis's personal journey is shadowed by the story of the lovable Teuila, aso-called fa'afafine ('in the manner of a woman'), and thespirit of Stevenson's servant boy, Sosimo. Set in an evocative tropical landscape haunted by the livesand spirits which drift across it, The Pacific Room is both a loveletter to Samoa and a lush and tender exploration of artistic creation, ofsecret passions and merging dualities.'A wonderfully stylistic novel, dream-like and mesmeric. It moves with ekphrastic cadences, from painting to writing and back again, between the present and the past, both muted and full of nuance, like a water-colour of archived time. Fitzgerald skilfully employs a controlled language of concealment and careful observation through which character is translated. All the while, there are subliminal disturbances below, indicating fatal and fateful meetings between culture and history.' - Brian Castro, Winner of the Patrick White Award for Literature 'Do Ilook strange?' fa'afafine ('in themanner of a woman'), and thespirit of Stevenson's servant boy, Sosimo. Set in an evocative tropical landscape haunted by the livesand spirits which drift across it, The Pacific Room Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Editore: Transit Lounge Publishing, Yarraville, VIC, 2022
ISBN 10: 0648414035 ISBN 13: 9780648414032
Da: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. *Shortlisted for the TAG Hungerford Manuscript Award 2018**Shortlisted for the International Chaffinch Press Manuscript Award (Ireland)*Chilling to read, cut with powerful energy and strong feeling.T or Timothy lives on the economic margins, both using and selling methamphetamine in Mandurah. When a friend, Gulp, tragically dies and T grows close to Lori-Bird his life promises to become more centred. But he moves between loving and leaving her.This is a lyrical and arresting portrait of characters who crave love but struggle with addiction and the tenuous yet intimate community connections it gives them. The spirit of the Peel landscape informs both T's identity and the lives of the people he encounters and offers a way out.Intimate with suffering and beauty, T is also at times transcendent. A contemporary novel with the urgency of what Davies' Candy, Kerouac's On the Road, and Garner's Monkey Grip were to their own times.'Confronting and discomfiting, with small moments of redemption T is very much a story for our times.' Kate Noske and Richard Rossiter (Hungerford Award Judges).'There is nothing else currently being written that is quite as exciting. Its blend of realism, grittiness, pared back lyricism and magical realism is unique and hasn't been seen since the work of a powerful novelist of regional life like Tom Flood. T works the margins, both in terms of place and subject of the culture around meth use, in utterly compelling ways. This story needs to be told.' Lucy Dougan, Premier's Award winner and Westerly editor. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Editore: Transit Lounge Publishing, Yarraville, VIC, 2021
ISBN 10: 1925760596 ISBN 13: 9781925760590
Da: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. The Pines, an outer Melbourne suburb down on its luck. A country in the grip of recession.Experienced collector Ron senses new possibilities: swift evictions provide hard-rubbish to scour and garage-sales have doubled. There's only one problem: since losing his wife, Ron has struggled to navigate the suburbs alone. Plus, his deteriorating health slows him down.This all changes through a chance meeting with Joseph, a troubled, withdrawn and unemployed 19-year old who knows nothing about antiques. As Joseph comes to understand and appreciate Ron's world of eccentric bargain hunters, and hopefulness, his ability to navigate a history of family violence and to see a future for himself grows. Both come to share the wild dream of finding a rare bargain such as an original Frederick McCubbin painting and making their fortune. So begins an exhilarating adventure and an unlikely and beautiful friendship.Set against the background of the early 1990s, Chasing the McCubbin is funny and sad in equal measure. A story of loneliness and the ageless desire for belonging, it will be the most heartbreaking yet feel-good novel you will read this year.'Truly fine writing with a great sense of characters and place, sympathetic and heartfelt without being sentimental, Scaunich pulls us into a fascinating world of low stakes and petty rivalries.' - Graeme Simsion 'Authentic, subtle, evocative and alive.' - Kate Ryan The Pines, an outer Melbourne suburb down on its luck. A country in the grip of recession. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Editore: Transit Lounge Publishing, Yarraville, VIC, 2015
ISBN 10: 1921924934 ISBN 13: 9781921924934
Da: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Climate change has arrived, and it's not going away. In the absence of effective world action, global warming is certain to continue. The Handbook is not another book about climate change science or politics. Rather it is an intelligent guide, and a potential ground breaker, for all of us who feel helpless in the face of government disagreement, and want to know in a practical way what we can do now.Not only will The Handbook help you prepare for increased droughts, floods, fires and heatwaves, it will provide you with stories and advice from individuals who are already quietly doing amazing things. Jane Rawson and James Whitmore, previously Environment editors for The Conversation, look at how to establish your risk and face your fears; where to live and with whom; and how to survive heat, fire and flood. They investigate ways to provide your own food, power and water, make sure you can still get around, and get rid of your waste and sewage. They talk about new ways to think about home and possessions, the sadness of living through climate change, and how, for both individual and common good, we might positively change the way we live.The Handbook is both practical and philosophical. It can be read cover-to-cover, or dipped into when you need specific advice. It can help you plan and execute a strategy to deal with the effects of climate change. It might change your life. But it should also make you ask, does it really have to be this way? Climate change hasarrived, and it's not going away. In the absence of effective world action, global warming is certain to continue. The Handbook Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Editore: Transit Lounge Publishing, Yarraville, VIC, 2021
ISBN 10: 1925760847 ISBN 13: 9781925760842
Da: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Danged Black Thing is an extraordinary collection of stories about love and migration, gender and class, patriarchy and womanhood, from a remarkable and original voice. Traversing the West and Africa, they celebrate the author's own hybridity with breathtaking sensuousness and lyricism.Simbiyu wins a scholarship to study in Australia, but cannot leave behind a world of walking barefoot, orange sun and his longing for a 'once pillow-soft mother'. In his past, a darkness rose from the river, and something nameless and mystical continues to envelop his life. In 'A Taste of Unguja' sweet taarab music, full of want, seeps into a mother's life on the streets of Melbourne as she evokes the powers of her ancestors to seek vengeance on her cursed ex. In the cyberfunk of 'Unlimited Data' Natukunda, a village woman, gives her all for her family in Old Kampala. Other stories explore with power what happens when the water runs dry and who pays, capture the devastating effects on women and children of societies in which men hold all the power, and themes of being, belonging, otherness.Speculative, realistic and even mythological, but always imbued with truth, empathy and Blackness, Danged Black Thing is a literary knockout.'Eugen Bacon gives us a cornucopia of dark fruitfulness. Her writing is equal parts fecund earth and fine-cut jewels; her stories juxtapose the scarred and abused with the powerfully magical, the numinous and the deceptively mundane. They travel the known world, remaking all its parts as they go, and they pull new worlds, fully formed, from Bacon's unfettered imagination.' - Margo Lanagan'Lyrical, rich,oftentimes darkandsometimes hopeful,Danged Black Thing is a speculative fiction collection that takes the reader on a journey from Africa to Australia. The cities and villages the stories are set in are sometimes familiar, while others are plucked fully formed from author Eugen Bacon's imagination, providing a vast backdrop to her exploration of the emotional costs of being a woman.Where men rule, there will be women who suffer. With the lyricism of Toni Morrison and the worldbuilding of Ken Liu, Bacon secures herself as an important voice in Australian genre fiction. Danged Black Thingis the feminist sciencefiction debut that brings women and Blackness to the forefront.' - Jing Xuan Teo, Books+Publishing Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Editore: Transit Lounge Publishing, Yarraville, VIC, 2019
ISBN 10: 1925760367 ISBN 13: 9781925760361
Da: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. From the authorof Travels with My Angst andAny Guru Will Do, a vivid, nostalgic, and funny memoir of growing upin Hong Kong in the 1960s.Phil Brown's lifebegins in small town Australia - Maitland, NSW to be precise - but in 1963 hisfather Ted hankers to return to the Hong Kong of his childhood and to cash inon a construction boom in the burgeoning colony.Then under Britishrule, the world of Hong Kong is a truly fascinating place for gweilos or foreigners, both a colonialoutpost and a region redolent with all the exoticism and contradictions of theFar East. The Brown's home, in the garden suburb of Kowloon Tong, buzzes withcharacters: the family's amah, Ah Moy, frequent visitors such as theinscrutable Mr Lai, the spy-like Tony Parr, and family members such as UncleCyril. Not to mention the kid from across the road, Michael Hutchence.Combining recentvisits to Hong Kong, where the author explores his childhood touchstones of theKowloon Cricket Club, the beach at Shek O, the Peninsula Hong Kong and the bustlinglanes of Kowloon, with an affectionate yet truly honest portrait of family,self and the 1960s The Kowloon Kid isan intimate and tender gem.'An exquisite loveletter to Hong Kong.' - RossFitzgerald From the authorof Travels with My Angst and Any Guru Will Do, a vivid, nostalgic, and funny memoir of growing upin Hong Kong in the 1960s. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Editore: Transit Lounge Publishing, Yarraville, VIC, 2020
ISBN 10: 1925760642 ISBN 13: 9781925760644
Da: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. *Longlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2021*Jack retreats to an Airbnb cottage in a small coastal town. As a writer he is pre-occupied with the phenomenon of found people: the Somerton Man, the Gippsland Man, the Isdal Woman, people who are found dead- their identities unknown or erased- and the mysterious pull this has on the public mind.In Blue Bay, as well as encountering the town's colourful inhabitants, Jack befriends Sarah, whose sister Alice is one of the many thousands of people who go missing every year. Sarah has been painting her sister's likeness in murals throughout the country, hoping that Alice will be found. Then Jack discovers a book about the people of the town, and about Sarah, which was written by a man who called himself Simon. Who once lived in the same cottage and created a backyard garden comprised of crazy mosaics. Until he too disappeared.While Sarah's life seems beholden to an ambiguous grief, Jack's own condition is unclear. Is he writing or dying? In The Fifth Season Philip Salom brings his virtuoso gifts for storytelling, humour and character to a haunting and unforgettable novel about the tenuousness of life and what it means to be both lost and found.'An immensely wise, witty, recognisable and haunting story.' - Robert Drewe Jack retreats to an Airbnb cottage in a small coastal town. As awriter he is pre-occupied with the phenomenon of found people: the SomertonMan, the Gippsland Man, the Isdal Woman, people who are found dead- theiridentities unknown or erased- and themysterious pull this has on the public mind. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Editore: Transit Lounge Publishing, Yarraville, VIC, 2020
ISBN 10: 1925760464 ISBN 13: 9781925760460
Da: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. **Winner of the 2021 ACT Book of the Year**'It starts to rain as I step outof my hotel .' So begins Subhash Jaireth's striking collection of essays on the writers, and their writing, that have enriched his own life. The works of Franz Kafka, Marina Tsvetaeva, Mikhail Bulgakov, Paul Celan, Hiromi Ito, Dutch philosopher Baruch Spinoza and others ignite in him the urge to travel (both physically and in spirit), almost like a pilgrim, to the places where such writers were born or died or wrote. In each essay a new emotional plane is reached revealing enticing connections. As a novelist, poet, essayist and translator born into a multilingual environment, Jairethtruly understands the power of words across languages and their integral connections to life of the body and the spirit. Drawing on years of research, translation and travelSpinoza's Overcoat and its illuminations of loss, mortality and the reverie of writing will linger with readers.'Eloquent and original, Jaireth's meditations on the lives-of-poets are full of astonishing details, tender connections and the magnificent melancholy of devotion to words. Encompassing matters of translation, love, mortality and homage, this is a rare model of what might be called "literary philosophy" and an utter joy and surprise for anyone interested in the reading and writing life .' GAIL JONES, author of The Death of Noah GlassSubhash Jaireth was born in India. Between 1969 and 1978 he spent nine years in Russia studying geology and Russian literature. In 1986 he migrated to Australia. He has published writing in Hindi, English and Russian and his novel After Love (Transit Lounge 2012) was published in Spain in 2018. Spinoza's Overcoat and its illuminations of loss,mortality and the reverie of writing will linger with readers. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.