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A CURIOUS EARTH, A
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| By: |
Gerard Woodward |
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Paperback |
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£15.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
009949065X |
| ISBN 13: |
9780099490654 |
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VINTAGE PUBLISHING |
| Pub. date: |
1 March, 2008 |
| Pages: |
304 |
| Description: |
Aldous Jones is tempted to spend the day sitting in the kitchen after the death of his wife. But he resumes old pastimes until, one day, wandering in London, he finds in the National Gallery, Rembrandt's portrait of his housekeeper turned mistress. This potrait awakens in Aldous the desire for a new life, a new woman, sex and companionship. |
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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 Gallery, where he is bewitched by a Rembrandt painting, and then to Ostend, to stay with his bohemian son and a ridiculous Dutch sexologist and then through a series of somewhat misguided relationships with sympathetic women to an ending of devatating poignancy... |
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UK |
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Vintage |
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