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The Living Sea of Waking Dreams: From the Booker prize-winning author of The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Richard Flanagan
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Description for The Living Sea of Waking Dreams: From the Booker prize-winning author of The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Paperback.
'Striking...brilliantly done' The Times
An ember storm of a novel, this is Booker Prize-winning novelist Richard Flanagan at his most moving-and astonishing-best.
Anna's aged mother is dying - if her three children would just allow it. Forced by their pity to stay alive, she increasingly escapes through her hospital window into visions of horror and delight.
When Anna's finger vanishes and a few months later her knee disappears, Anna too feels the pull of the window. She begins to see that all around her others are similarly vanishing, but no one else notices. All ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2022
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781529114058
SKU
9781529114058
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About Richard Flanagan
Richard Flanagan has been described by the Washington Post as ‘one of our greatest living novelists’ and as ‘among the most versatile writers in the English language’ by the New York Review of Books. He won the Booker Prize for The Narrow Road to the Deep North and the Commonwealth Prize for Gould’s Book of Fish. A ... Read more
Reviews for The Living Sea of Waking Dreams: From the Booker prize-winning author of The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Pyrotechnic brilliance
Daily Mail
Ambitious, powerful... There is much to enjoy and admire in this novel... Flanagan writes with a startling brilliance
Scotsman
A fiercely well-observed account of the psychological twists and turns, the stress points and the double-binds, of familial love
Daily Telegraph
Richard Flanagan is one of the greatest writers at work ... Read more
Daily Mail
Ambitious, powerful... There is much to enjoy and admire in this novel... Flanagan writes with a startling brilliance
Scotsman
A fiercely well-observed account of the psychological twists and turns, the stress points and the double-binds, of familial love
Daily Telegraph
Richard Flanagan is one of the greatest writers at work ... Read more