A Brief Affair by Alex Miller Paperback Book

Description: A Brief Affair by Alex Miller A moving novel about storytelling, about truths, and love, from twice Miles Franklin Award winner Alex Miller. FORMAT Paperback CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description More than one ghost haunts this tender novel about love in its many guises, condoned and illicit. In his deceptively simple, lucid prose, Alex Miller examines the emotional contradictions inherent in apparent opposites as his central character learns to draw strength and inspiration from unlikely places. Hauntingly beautiful, A Brief Affair will resonate long after its pages are closed. Sylvia Martin, author of Ink in Her Veins: The Troubled Life of Aileen PalmerFrom the bustling streets of China, to the ominous Cell 16 in an old asylum building, to the familiar sounds and sight of galahs flying over a Victorian farm, A Brief Affair is a tender love story.On the face of it, Dr Frances Egan is a woman who has it all - a loving family and a fine career - until a brief, perfect affair reveals to her an imaginative dimension to her life that is wholly her own.Fran finds the courage and the inspiration to risk everything and change her direction at the age of forty-two. This newfound understanding of herself is fortified by the discovery of a long-forgotten diary from the asylum and the story it reveals.Written with humour, sensitivity and the wisdom for which Millers work is famous, this exquisitely compassionate novel explores the interior life and the dangerous navigation of love in all its forms.A richly satisfying and luminous novel. Emeritus Professor Tom GriffithsA wise, atmospheric novel from a master. Susan Wyndham, The GuardianMiller engages profoundly with the inner lives of women . . .One of Australias finest storytellers.Weekend AustralianThis book radiates the compressed skill of Millers long andsuccessful career. Its a tale about love, beauty and belonging.Canberra Times Author Biography Alex Miller is the award-winning author of thirteen novels and a collection of essays and stories. He is published internationally and widely in translation. Miller is twice winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award, for The Ancestor Game and for Journey to the Stone Country. He is an overall winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize in 1993 for The Ancestor Game. Conditions of Faith and Lovesong are both winners of the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction in the NSW Premiers Awards. Landscape of Farewell was awarded the Chinese 21st Century Weishanhi Best Foreign Novel of the Year and the Manning Clark Medal for Millers outstanding contribution to Australian cultural life. Autumn Laing received the Melbourne Prize for Literature, and Coal Creek, the Victorian Premiers Literary Award. Millers work of non-fiction, Max, was shortlisted for the National Biography Award in 2021. His most recent novel, A Brief Affair, was first published in 2022 and Millers collection of letters and notebooks, A Kind of Confession-a deeply personal, behind-the-scenes exploration of Millers six-decade writing life-was published in 2023. Details ISBN1761470582 Author Alex Miller Publisher Allen & Unwin Format Paperback Pages 288 Year 2023 ISBN-13 9781761470585 Publication Date 2023-11-28 Imprint Allen & Unwin Place of Publication Sydney Country of Publication Australia Audience General AU Release Date 2023-11-28 NZ Release Date 2023-11-28 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:157382018;

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