The Death of Noah Glass, Gail Jones
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‚Ä¢ Gail Jones‚Äô acclaimed mesmerising novel about love and art, grief and happiness, memory, legacy and the mystery of time is now available in b-format. ‚Ä¢ Having just returned from a trip to Sicily, the art historian, Noah Glass is discovered floating face down in the swimming pool at his Sydney apartment block. His grieving adult children Martin and Evie must deal with the shock of their father’s death but also with his involvement in a sculpture missing from a museum in Palermo ‚Ä¢ In this novel, Gail Jones ponders the concept of a single life, the ways in which it exists in the memory of others and skillfully explores the overlapping patterns made by a life and reveals how books, films and paintings can become repositories of time ‚Ä¢ The Death of Noah Glass has sold nearly 9K copies in previous formats and was widely praised and reviewed on release ‚Ä¢ In 2019 this novel won the Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Fiction and was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award, Victorian Premier‚Äôs Literary Award for Fiction, Colin Roderick Award and the ALS Gold Medal ‚Ä¢ Gail Jones, is the acclaimed author of seven novels which have been awarded multiple prizes in Australia, shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award three times, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Orange Prize and shortlisted for the IMPAC Award and the Prix Femina √âtranger. She lives in Glebe, NSW.
Weight | 400 g |
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