A Curious Earth |
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| Author:
| Woodward, Gerard |
| ISBN: | 978-0-09-949065-4 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 2008 |
| Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | Contact Supplier contact
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Book Description:
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By the author of Booker-shortlisted
I'll Go To Bed At Noon. Aldous Jones is in a bad way- his dilapidated house is empty of family but full of hoarded odds and ends that remind him of his dead wife and son. A preference for whisky over washing rapidly leads to his hospitalisation but it also reawakens his desire for sex and adventure and his lifelong passion for art. What follows is a heartbreakingly funny quest that will lead him first to the National...
More DescriptionBy the author of Booker-shortlisted I'll Go To Bed At Noon.
Aldous Jones is in a bad way- his dilapidated house is empty of family but full of hoarded odds and ends that remind him of his dead wife and son. A preference for whisky over washing rapidly leads to his hospitalisation but it also reawakens his desire for sex and adventure and his lifelong passion for art.
What follows is a heartbreakingly funny quest that will lead him first to the National Gallery, where he is bewitched by a Rembrandt painting, and then to Ostend, to stay with his boemian son and a ridiculous Dutch sexologist and then through a series of somewhat misguided relationships with sympathetic women to an ending of devatating poignancy...