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Autumn Laing

Autumn Laing

by Alex Miller (Author)

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    Paperback 2012

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Synopsis

Autumn Laing seduces Pat Donlon with her lust for life and art. In doing so she not only compromises the trusting love she has with her husband, Arthur, she also steals the future from Pat's young and beautiful wife, Edith, and their unborn child. Fifty-three years later, cantankerous, engaging, unrestrainable 85-year-old Autumn is shocked to find within herself a powerful need for redemption. As she tells her story, she writes, 'They are all dead and I am old and skeleton-gaunt. This is where it began...' Written with compassion and intelligence, this energetic, funny and wise novel peels back the layers of storytelling and asks what truth has to do with it. Autumn Laing is an unflinchingly intimate portrait of a woman and her time - she is unforgettable.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 464
 Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Published: 01 May 2012
ISBN 10: 1742378838
ISBN 13: 9781742378831
Book Overview: 'Alex Miller is a wonderful writer, one that Australia has been keeping secret from the rest of us for too long.' John Banville A brilliantly alive, insistently energetic story of love, loyalty and creativity, from the pen of one of Australia's foremost writers, two-time Miles Franklin Literary Award winner, Alex Miller.

Media Reviews
All of Alex Miller's wisdom and experience - of art, of women and what drives them, of writing, of men and their ambitions - and every mirage and undulation of the Australian landscape are here, transmuted into rare and radiant fiction. An indispensible novel. * Australian Book Review *
Miller's prose is so simply wrought it almost disguises its sophistication... Like Dante, a voice that was not Miller's own has entered his breast and breathes there. The result transforms one woman's dying words into pure and living art. * The Australian *
Author Bio
Alex Miller has twice won the prestigious Miles Franklin Literary Award, Australia's premier literary prize; the first occasion in 1993 for The Ancestor Game, and again in 2003 for Journey to the Stone Country. He is also an overall winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, for The Ancestor Game, in 1993. British by birth, he now lives in Victoria.