| Description |
374 pages ; 24 cm |
| Summary |
Everywhere he looked he saw what Utzon saw. The drama of harbour and horizon, and at night, the star-clotted sky. It held the shape of the possible, of a promise made and waiting to be kept..." In 1965, as Danish architect Jørn Utzons striking vision for the Sydney Opera House transforms the skyline and unleashes a storm of controversy, the shadow of the Vietnam War and a deadly lottery threaten to tear the country apart. Journalist Pearl Keogh, exiled to the womens pages after being photographed at an anti-war protest, is desperate to find her two missing brothers and save them from the draft. Axel Lindquist, a visionary young glass artist from Sweden, is obsessed with creating a unique work that will do justice to Utzons towering masterpiece. In this big, bold and hauntingly beautiful portrait of art and life, Shell captures a world on the brink of seismic change through the eyes of two unforgettable characters caught in the eye of the storm. And it reminds us why taking a side matters |
| Subject |
Utzon, Jørn, 1918-2008 -- Fiction.
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Sydney Opera House -- Fiction.
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Women journalists -- Australia -- Fiction.
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Glass artists -- Australia -- Fiction.
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Australian fiction.
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| SUBJECT |
Sydney (N.S.W.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79021855 -- Buildings, structures, etc. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99004820 -- Fiction.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001562
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| Genre/Form |
Historical fiction.
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Reading nook.
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| LC no. |
be2018033453 |
| ISBN |
9781925685329 (hardback) |
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