The returns : a novel
Salom, Philip, 1950-2019
Book
Elizabeth posts a 'room for rent' notice in Trevor's bookshop and is caught off-guard when Trevor answers the ad himself. She expected a young student not a middle-aged bookseller whose marriage has fallen apart. But Trevor is attracted to Elizabeth's house because of the empty shed in her backyard, the perfect space for him to revive the artistic career he abandoned years earlier. The face-blind, EH Holden-driving Elizabeth is a solitary and feisty book editor, and she accepts him, on probation... Miles Franklin finalist Philip Salom has a gift for depicting the inner states of his characters with empathy and insight. In this poignant yet upbeat novel the past keeps returning in the most unexpected ways. Elizabeth is at the beck and call of her ageing mother, and the associated memories of her childhood in a Rajneesh community. Trevor's Polish father disappeared when Trevor was fifteen, and his mother died not knowing whether he was dead or alive. The authorities have declared him dead, but is he?
Main title:
The returns : a novel / Philip Salom.
Author:
Salom, Philip, 1950-, author
Work:
Imprint:
Melbourne, Australia : Transit Lounge Publishing, 2019.©2019.
Collation:
324 pages ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2020.
Audience:
Adult.
ISBN:
9781925760262 (paperback)192576026X
Dewey class:
A823.3
Language:
English
Subject:
Artists -- FictionBook editors -- FictionBooksellers and bookselling -- FictionDysfunctional families -- FictionEccentrics and eccentricities -- FictionFathers -- Death -- FictionFriendship -- FictionInterpersonal relations -- FictionMissing persons -- FictionMothers and daughters -- FictionOlder people -- Care -- FictionRoommates -- FictionShared housing -- FictionDomestic fictionPsychological fiction
BRN:
104088