The Golden Age

Zusatztext Praise for The Golden Age “ The Golden Age is pretty much perfect.” — Publishers Weekly! Starred Review  "Her writing is cleareyed! generous-hearted! never sentimental...every character! however minor! comes to life in these pages. Like her fictional pianist! London is a virtuoso." — Krikus Reviews (Starred) “Poetic intensity suffuses the novel...resisting easy sentimentality! [it] presents polio rehabilitation as a metaphor for postwar recovery.” — The New Yorker “Characterization is the novel’s primary achievement. Readers will feel affection for Frank and the many secondary characters." — Minneapolis Star Tribune " T he Golden Age is a beautiful love story that insists upon celebrating the transcendent power of poetry and art over the destructive forces of fear! despair and xenophobia.” — The Dallas Morning News "For all its focus on exile and displacement! 'The Golden Age' is by no means an angry book. It is a quiet! elegiac story of love and renewal and liberation written in crisp prose..." — Forward " The Golden Age serenely affirms the goodness in people and the divinity of the connections between them." —Helen Elliott! The Syndney Morning Herald " The Golden Age is London's most accomplished and keenly felt work to date...her affection for her characters may be contagious." —Geordie Williamson! The Australian  "Fearless! graceful and deeply benevolent." —Helen Garner! novelist “The multi-award-winning London graciously captures young love in a quiet and beautifully sculpted story that is easily devoured in one sitting.” — Library Journal "A brilliant display of life and change: the transition between war and peace! between love and permission! between terrible paralysis of various kinds and movement." —Brenda Walker! The Monthly " The Golden Age carries the quiet assurance of a classic! which it will most certainly become. " —Tegan Bennett Daylight! Sydney Review of Books "London’s writing is at its best when bringing to life the coming-of-age story between Frank and Elsa: their hopes and fears (and those of other polio-stricken children)! their resolve! and their disappointments. The setting and place are rich and detailed! and Perth feels alive." — Historical Novel Society Praise for Joan London "[ Gilgamesh ] captures the romance of wanderlust like no other novel I have read." —Maureen Freely! The Guardian  "[ The Good Parents ] a dark and lovely work is both a novel of ideas and one of emotions...the mystery of enthrallment only deepens! irradiated by London's gorgeous prose." —Roxana Robinson! The New York Times "London's prose is a seamlessly shifting blend of poetry! pathos! and humor." — The Washington Post Informationen zum Autor Joan London is a bookseller and author living in Perth. She is the author of two short story collections, Sister Ships , which won The Age Book of the Year award, and Letter to Constantine , which won the Steele Rudd Award as well as the West Australian Premier's Award for Fiction, and three novels, Gilgamesh , The Good Parents , and The Golden Age . Klappentext New from the Australian author of "Gilgamesh" and "The Good Parents", this follows a family who escape from Hungary during WWII to the safety of Australia. 13-year-old Frank Gold is diagnosed with polio and sent to a sprawling children's hospital called The Golden Age. Zusammenfassung A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year: During WWII! a Jewish boy copes with a new homeland! a polio diagnosis-and falling in love for the first time. Frank Gold's family! Hung...

Product details

• Authors: Joan London
• Publisher: Europa Editions
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.08.2016
• EAN: 9781609453329
• ISBN: 978-1-60945-332-9
• Series: Europa editions
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature