Euro
British Pound
Product Description
"Now she seems like a musical note which has escaped into the air that is the river of all music. At night he goes into the dark, looks up at distant stars, miserable that knowledge has robbed us of the old certainties. Once we had souls, and souls went 'up there' when we died. Now we have nothing, no souls, no destination, just an arithmetic of meaningless distances.
"An artist is commissioned to weave the portraits of a random selection of townsfolk in Lost River. For this task he must interview each one - fifty-two in all, one for every week of the year - to discern the gestures by which he might portray them. His work becomes an odyssey through hmankind, its social, political, sexual, humorous and spiritual aspects. The chosen few are enlightened, insane, larrikins, fools, psychopaths, mindles smaterialists...people who have caught a glimpse of something strange, perhaps the borders of a world behind the everyday.
"The weaver's subjects are haunted by the death of one of their number, while he in turn is haunted by thoughts of Yarrow, the woman whose absence underscores his existence.
"The Chosen is David Ireland's first novel in ten years and his finest achievement yet - a prodigously profound and witty vision of humanity by one of the great masters of Australian writing."
This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title.
Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so.
Even if the picture shows no price stickers on the book they may be there on the copy you receive.
All of our books are in very good condition.
Please be aware that there will be a sticker with an identifying number on the spine of this book.
