My Father's Moon/Cabin Fever/The Georges' Wife

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$19.95 US / $22.00 CANADA "A liaunting portrait Lyrically written, imaginatively observed, and emotionally compelling." -Puhlishers Weehly "One of tke Lest writers of tke twentietk century . . . Jolley transports us to 'tke twiligkt between tke fact an dtke imagined/ wkere Vera s rutkless selí -examination is tempered everywkere by kumor, joy, and surprise." -KARÉN RUSSELL , author of St Lucy's Home /or Girls Raised hy Wolves "Here is tke intimate keart of Elizabetk Jolley s work: kumbly passionate, quietly kilarious, and full of wry, stoical wisdom." -HELEN GARNER , autnor o f The Sp are Room This autobiographical trilogy of novels begins in England during the Second World War when young Vera leaves school against her parents' wishes and becomes a nurse in a military hospitál. There, she is enthralled by a staff nurse, who plays concert piano and reads Rilke in Germán, and seduced by a philandering, married doctor, who leaves her pregnant and then disappears - gone to the front,... Tovább

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$19.95 US / $22.00 CANADA "A liaunting portrait Lyrically written, imaginatively observed, and emotionally compelling." -Puhlishers Weehly "One of tke Lest writers of tke twentietk century . . . Jolley transports us to 'tke twiligkt between tke fact an dtke imagined/ wkere Vera s rutkless selí -examination is tempered everywkere by kumor, joy, and surprise." -KARÉN RUSSELL , author of St Lucy's Home /or Girls Raised hy Wolves "Here is tke intimate keart of Elizabetk Jolley s work: kumbly passionate, quietly kilarious, and full of wry, stoical wisdom." -HELEN GARNER , autnor o f The Sp are Room This autobiographical trilogy of novels begins in England during the Second World War when young Vera leaves school against her parents' wishes and becomes a nurse in a military hospitál. There, she is enthralled by a staff nurse, who plays concert piano and reads Rilke in Germán, and seduced by a philandering, married doctor, who leaves her pregnant and then disappears - gone to the front, or perhaps to find his male lover. These complex relationships set the pattern for her coming-of-age - a journey that will take Vera through further erotic entanglements with men and women; the hardship of survival as a single mother; immersion in a world of bohemian intellectuals and misfits; and, in her thirties, migration to Australia. Four decades later, now a respectable doctor, Vera looks back over her life. In order to understand her present self, she pieces together fragments of remembered experience, trying to catch a glimpse of the young woman she once was, whose passions and spirit determined her course. The Vera Wright Trilogy is the centerpiece of Elizabeth Jolley7s work. It gives a sharp portrait of what life was like for women in England in the 1930s-1950s and bears witness with unflinching honesty to the unexpected leanings of the humán heart. Vissza