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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Spanning the Scottish Highlands and inner-city Sydney, 88 Lines About 44 Women is about a former rock star dealing with the accidental death of his beautiful (and utterly selfish and unappealing and dysfunctional) wife twenty years earlier. This leads him to reflect over his current relationship with a local Scottish woman, his relationships with his elderly parents and the schoolboy friendship that could be blamed with starting it all. This is actually a quite well written book with a vaguely compelling plot. My only real issue with it is that I have very little patience for those novels about middle aged men having crises about the extremely attractive women they somehow manage to pull, despite coming across as rather gormless (I think we're actually supposed to find their narratorial honesty and insecurities disarming) and possibly lacking in hygiene. But don't let my idiosyncracies put you off. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
Sometimes the bad notes resonate longest For a while Lawrence Martin had everything. He was the keyboard player in a successful rock band; he had money, his choice of women. It was all a long way from the British boarding school where he met Roly, the charismatic front man who lured him to Australia in the first place, and with whom he shared the song-writing. Only after it all went wrong did Lawrence learn they'd been sharing other things as well. Two decades on, living in the highlands of Scotland, he's again confronted with those turbulent years, and with the accident that changed everything . . . Wry, insightful, intelligent, 88 Lines About 44 Womentraces the boundaries of shame and how it obstructs the capacity for love. Are all men emotionally disconnected? Does true intimacy bring redemption, or is it the other way round? 'An excellent novel; a finely calibrated blend of a carefully paced thriller and a literary exploration of masculinity.' Jo Case, Australian Book Review 'Be prepared to be surprised.' Liam Davison, Weekend Australian 'A brilliantly humane novel.' Tim Kennedy Hanna, Australian Literary Review 'This fluently written novel is an elegant expression of how the complex dynamics of male and female versions of friendship, love and sex can be corroded by unresolved guilt.' Ian McFarlane, CanberraTimes 'A wry, wise and affecting study of shame, particularly as it relates to men ... An insightful and authentic tale steeped in matters of the human mind and heart.' Michael Jacobson, Weekend Gold Coast Bulletin 'A thoughtful and well-written tale of a man trying to make sense of his life.' Sun Herald Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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And was jolted wide awake by the prologue.
I shan’t tell anything about it, except to say that it is harrowing. An ordinary situation that gets very out of hand. It ensures that you give your full attention to this superbly crafted book which has been nominated for the 2010 NSW Premier’s Christina Stead Prize for Fiction. Read the rest of my review at
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