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The Idea of Perfection

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The Idea of Perfection( )
Author: Grenville, Kate
Introduction by: Armfield, Neil
Series title:Text Classics Ser.
ISBN:978-1-921921-68-1
Publication Date:Jan 2012
Publisher:Text Publishing Company
Book Format:Digital download
List Price:AUD $14.95
Book Description:

Winner of the Orange Prize. In the small town of Karakarook, Douglas Cheeseman and Harvey Savage seem the least likely people in the world to fall in love. Unlike Felicity Porcelline, a woman dangerously haunted by the idea of perfection, they come to understand that what looks like weakness can be the best kind of strength.

Book Details
Pages:416
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / General
Author Biography
Grenville, Kate (Author)
Kate Grenville was born in Sydney on October 14, 1950. She is a graduate of the University of Sydney with a BA (Honours), the University of Colorado with a MA and a PhD in Creative Arts from the University of Technology, Sydney.

She is one of Australia's best-known authors. She is the winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. She will be at the Oz, New Zealand festival of literature and arts program in London in 2015. She also made the Indie Awards 2016 shortlists in the Nonfiction category with her title One Life.

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