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1 online resource (241 pages) |
Summary |
In a coastal village in Cork in 1969, a Russian painter and his Irish novelist wife write letters to one another as they try to come to terms with a fatal illness. On Australia's west coast in 2011, a bookseller writes to her estranged partner in an attempt to understand what has happened to their relationship. In Bournemouth in 1948, a retired English doctor writes letters to the love of his life, a German artist he lived with In the Vienna during the 1930s. The simple three domestic lives of these three couples are set against conversations about intimacy, art, war and loss |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Australian fiction.
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Families -- Fiction.
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Interpersonal relations -- Fiction.
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Married people -- Fiction.
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Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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Fiction.
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
0702251011 (electronic bk.) |
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070225102X (electronic bk.) |
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9780702251016 (electronic bk.) |
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9780702251023 (electronic bk.) |
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