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The Wilderness by Samantha Harvey (Hardcover, 2009)
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Samantha Harvey the wilderness. Signed lined dated first edition and print. Sent well packaged as all my books Any questions please feel free to ask. Thanks for looking.
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It's Jake's birthday. He is sitting in a small plane, being flown over the landscape that has been the backdrop to his life - his childhood, his marriage, his work, his passions. Now he is in his early sixties, and he isn't quite the man he used to be. He has lost his wife, his son is in prison, and he is about to lose his past. Jake has Alzheimer's. As the disease takes hold of him, Jake struggles to hold on to his personal story, to his memories and identity, but they become increasingly elusive and unreliable. What happened to his daughter? Is she alive, or long dead? And why exactly is his son in prison? What went so wrong in his life? There was a cherry tree once, and a yellow dress, but what exactly do they mean?As Jake, assisted by 'poor Eleanor', a childhood friend with whom for some unfathomable reason he seems to be sleeping, fights the inevitable dying of the light, the key events of his life keep changing as he tries to grasp them, and what until recently seemed solid fact is melting into surreal dreams or nightmarish imaginings. Is there anything he'll be able to salvage from the wreckage? Beauty, perhaps, the memory of love, or nothing at all? From the first sentence to the last, The Wilderness holds us in its grip. This is writing of extraordinary power and beauty.Product Identifiers
PublisherVintage Publishing
ISBN-139780224086073
eBay Product ID (ePID)87029008
Product Key Features
Book TitleThe Wilderness
AuthorSamantha Harvey
FormatHardcover
LanguageEnglish
TopicBooks
Publication Year2009
Number of Pages336 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height223mm
Item Width142mm
Item Weight465g
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorSamantha Harvey
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
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- 31 Oct, 2019
I did not enjoy
I personally did not like this book and have given it to chaerityVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
