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Author: Gail Jones
Publisher: Text Publishing
Published: 2022-01-05
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781922458223
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA new, smaller format for this sweeping intergenerational novel from 2019 Prime Minister's Literary Award winner Gail Jones.
Author: Gail Jones
Publisher: Random House Australia
Published: 2014-03-03
Total Pages: 263
ISBN-13: 1742749879
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a story that can only be told in a whisper ... In the remote outback of Western Australia during the Second World War, English anthropologist Nicholas Keene and his wife, Stella, raise a lonely child, Perdita. Her upbringing is far from ordinary: in a shack in the wilderness, with a distant father burying himself in books and an unstable mother whose knowledge of Shakespeare forms the backbone of the girl's limited education. Emotionally adrift, Perdita becomes friends with a deaf and mute boy, Billy, and an Aboriginal girl, Mary. Perdita and Mary come to call one another sister and to share a very special bond. They are content with life in this remote corner of the globe, until a terrible event lays waste to their lives. Through this exquisite story of Perdita's troubled childhood, Gail Jones explores the values of friendship, loyalty and sacrifice with a brilliance that has already earned her numerous accolades for her previous novels, Dreams of Speaking and Sixty Lights.
Author: Gail Jones
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2012-02-28
Total Pages: 223
ISBN-13: 1250003733
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTold over the course of a single Saturday in Sydney, Five Bells describes four lives that come to share not only a place and time but also mysterious patterns and ambiguous symbols, including a barely glimpsed fifth figure, a young child.--Résumé de l'éditeur.
Author: Gail Jones
Publisher: Random House Australia
Published: 2012-11-01
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 1742749445
DOWNLOAD EBOOK‘I am waiting for this visitor so that I can tell my story and die.’ The award-winning novel from Gail Jones Victoria Morrell was once a great artist. She led the high life - living and working in Paris, mixing with the artists of the Surrealist movement. Her work was largely forgotten in the fifties and sixties, but was rediscovered in the seventies when she became something of a cult figure on the London art scene. She now lives as a recluse in Hampstead, London. And she is dying. Anna Griffin is the young woman commissioned to write a biography of Victoria's life. In many ways their lives strangely intersect, since they grew up in the same mining town and share preoccupations with underground spaces, deserts and the many forms of grief. In a compelling double narrative, Gail Jones tracks Victoria's past as it intertwines with Anna's life. The stories Victoria tells enable both women to enter into new forms of sympathy and understanding. Elegant, enthralling, and emotionally charged, Black Mirror is both a novel of love and family mystery, and a meditation on the nature of artistic vision and obsession.
Author: Gayl Jones
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 1987-02-15
Total Pages: 149
ISBN-13: 0807096989
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHere is Gayl Jones's classic novel, the tale of blues singer Ursa, consumed by her hatred of the nineteenth-century slave master who fathered both her grandmother and mother.
Author: Gail Jones
Publisher: Random House Australia
Published: 2016-08
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 0857988166
DOWNLOAD EBOOKShortlisted for the NSW Premier's Literary Awards and Longlisted for the 2016 Stella Prize.'A Guide to Berlin' is the name of a short story written by Vladimir Nabokov in 1925, when he was a young man of 26, living in Berlin. A group of six international travellers, two Italians, two Japanese, an American and an Australian, meet in empty apartments in Berlin to share stories and memories. Each is enthralled in some way to the work of Vladimir Nabokov, and each is finding their way in deep winter in a haunted city. A moment of devastating violence shatters the group, and changes the direction of everyone's story. Brave and brilliant, A Guide to Berlin traces the strength and fragility of our connections through biographies and secrets.
Author: Tanya Dalziell
Publisher: Sydney University Press
Published: 2020-07-01
Total Pages: 179
ISBN-13: 1743327013
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGail Jones: Word, Image, Ethics is an accessible guide to the writings of Gail Jones, the award-winning Australian author, essayist and academic. Drawing together ideas from literature, art, philosophy and photography, the volume presents a compelling analysis of Jones’ literary commitment to the political and the personal, and reflects on how and why we interpret literary texts. An essential contribution to the intersecting fields of Australian studies and international literature, Gail Jones: Word, Image, Ethics offers innovative insights into the writing of one of Australia’s most accomplished authors.
Author: M. Gail Jones
Publisher: NSTA Press
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 172
ISBN-13: 1933531053
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContains lesson plans, activities, and reproducible pages for use in sixth through twelfth grade units on nanoscale science.
Author: Gail Jones
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2013-10-31
Total Pages: 247
ISBN-13: 1448104904
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSixty Lights is the captivating chronicle of Lucy Strange, an independent girl growing up in the Victorian world. From her childhood in Australia through to her adolescence in England and Bombay and finally to London, Lucy is fascinated by light and by the new photographic technology. Her perception of the world is passionate and moving, revealed in a series of frozen images captured in the camera of her mind's eye showing her feelings about love, life and loss. In this confident, finely woven and intricate novel Jones has created an unforgettable character in Lucy; visionary, gifted and exuberant, she touches the lives of all who know her.
Author: Gail Jones
Publisher: Random House Australia
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 1741667232
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA vision of Japan as you have never imagined it. A brilliant and moving novel about displacement and belonging by the award-winning author of Sixty Lights and Five Bells. She wished to study the unremarked beauty of modern things, of telephones, aeroplanes, computer screens and electric lights, of television, cars and underground transportation. There had to be in the world of mechanical efficiency some mystery of transaction, the summoning of remote meanings, an extra dimension - supernatural, sure. There had to be a lost sublimity, of something once strange, now familiar, tame.''We must talk, Alice Black, about this world of modern things. This buzzing world." Alice is entranced by the aesthetics of technology and, in every aeroplane flight, every Xerox machine, every neon sign, sees the poetry of modernity. Mr Sakamoto, a survivor of the atomic bomb, is an expert on Alexander Graham Bell. Like Alice, he is culturally and geographically displaced. The pair forge an unlikely friendship as Mr Sakamoto regales Alice with stories of twentieth-century invention. His own knowledge begins to inform her writing, and these two solitary beings become a mutual support for each other a long way from home. This novel from prize-winning author Gail Jones is distinguished in its honesty and intelligence. From the boundlessness of space walking to the frustrating constrictions of one person's daily existence, Dreams of Speaking paints with grace and skill the experience of needing to belong despite wanting to be alone.
