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A Curious Earth

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  • Format
  • Bog, paperback
  • Engelsk
  • 304 sider

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By the author of Booker-shortlisted I'll Go To Bed At Noon.

Aldous Jones is in a bad way: his dilapidated house is empty of family but full of hoarded odds and ends that remind him of his dead wife and son. A preference for whisky over washing rapidly leads to his hospitalisation but it also reawakens his desire for sex and adventure and his lifelong passion for art.

What follows is a heartbreakingly funny quest that will lead him first to the National Gallery, where he is bewitched by a Rembrandt painting, and then to Ostend, to stay with his boemian son and a ridiculous Dutch sexologist and then through a series of somewhat misguided relationships with sympathetic women to an ending of devatating poignancy...

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Detaljer
  • SprogEngelsk
  • Sidetal304
  • Udgivelsesdato06-03-2008
  • ISBN139780099490654
  • Forlag Vintage
  • FormatPaperback
Størrelse og vægt
  • Vægt200 g
  • Dybde1,9 cm
  • coffee cup img
    10 cm
    book img
    13 cm
    19,6 cm

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