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Autumn Laing

Autumn Laing

by Alex Miller (Author)

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    Paperback 2013

    $3.48
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: 456
 Edition: Main
 Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Published: 04 Apr 2013
ISBN 10: 1743311451
ISBN 13: 9781743311455
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
Miller's novel is in many respects his best yet, a compelling tale of important ideas and influential relationships, an examination of a period in art and of characters who command empathy even when acting badly. * The Times Literary Supplement *
Miller is a treasure from the land Down Under... Why we haven't been reading him for years, I honestly can't imagine. * The Irish Times *
An old woman's memories evoke an entire continent of art in an epic of Australia. * The Scotsman *
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 *
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.