The White Body of Evening
$30.28
- Paperback
416 pages
- Release Date
30 July 2003
Summary
Madness and the nature of creativity are at the heart of A.L. McCann’s first novel. A highly engaging read - Courier Mail.
Melbourne in the 1890s: a city of respectable facades concealing a twilight world of sexual misadventure. As the marriage of Albert and Anna Walters degenerates into brutal farce, their children, Paul and Ondine, are exposed to the city’s lurid possibilities. In the new century Ondine takes after her mother and wrestles with repressive social convention, while Pau…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780732277338 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0732277337 |
| Author: | A.L. McCann |
| Publisher: | HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd |
| Imprint: | Fourth Estate |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 416 |
| Release Date: | 30 July 2003 |
| Weight: | 392g |
| Dimensions: | 136mm x 193mm x 31mm |
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About The Author
A.L. McCann
A.L. McCann is a Melbourne-based academic and writer. He holds an MA from Melbourne Uni and a PhD from Cornell Uni, New York; is the recipient of numerous academic awards and fellowships; and has published books on cultural politics and literature and papers and articles on subjects as diverse as surburbia, history, Patrick White and Marcus Clarke. He currently lectures in the English Department of Melbourne University and lives in Victoria.
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