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The Golden Age / Joan London.

By: Publication details: North Sydney, N.S.W. : Random House Australia, 2014.Description: 242 pages ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781741666441
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • A823.3 23
Awards:
  • 2015 Kibble Literary Award for an established author. 2015 University of Queensland Fiction Book Award 2015 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Fiction.
Summary: This is a story of resilience, the irrepressible, enduring nature of love, and the fragility of life. From one of Australia's most loved novelists. He felt like a pirate landing on an island of little maimed animals. A great wave had swept them up and dumped them here. All of them, like him, stranded, wanting to go home. Perth, 1954.
List(s) this item appears in: Award Longlist - Miles Franklin | Awarded General Fiction
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Item type Home library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode Item reserves
Book Melbourne Athenaeum Library Fiction LON Available 057831
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This is a story of resilience, the irrepressible, enduring nature of love, and the fragility of life. From one of Australia's most loved novelists. He felt like a pirate landing on an island of little maimed animals. A great wave had swept them up and dumped them here. All of them, like him, stranded, wanting to go home. Perth, 1954.

2015 Kibble Literary Award for an established author.
2015 University of Queensland Fiction Book Award
2015 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Fiction.

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