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The diplomat / Chris Womersley.
Publication details: Sydney, NSW : Picador Australia, 2022.Description: 207 pages ; 23 cmISBN:- 9781760989767
- Widowers -- Fiction
- Recovering addicts -- Fiction
- Hotels -- Australia -- Melbourne (Vic.) -- Fiction
- Nineteen nineties -- Fiction
- Art thefts -- Fiction
- Grief
- Hotels
- Nineteen nineties
- Detoxification (Substance abuse treatment) -- Fiction
- Art -- Forgeries -- Fiction
- Australian fiction
- Corruption -- Fiction
- Missing persons -- Investigation -- Fiction
- Power (Social sciences) -- Fiction
- Art forgers -- Fiction
- Interpersonal relations -- Fiction
- Drug dealers -- Fiction
- Grief -- Fiction
- Wives -- Death -- Fiction
- Victoria -- Melbourne
- Melbourne (Vic.) -- Fiction
- AUS fiction (Victoria)
- A823.4 23
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction | WOM | Available | 071390 |
Total reserves: 0
1991. Fresh out of detox and five years after his involvement in the theft of Picasso's masterpiece The Weeping Woman from the NGV, Edward Degraves - art forger and drug addict - returns to Melbourne for a new start. All he needs to do is make one last visit to The Diplomat, a seedy motel renowned for its drug dealers and eccentrics. But Edward's new-found sobriety is both a torment and a gift. As he revisits old haunts, he is confronted by reminders of the past: ruined relationships, a stalled career as an artist and - looming over everything - the death of his beloved wife Gertrude.
