7 1/2

7 1/2
Christos Tsiolkas
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NZ$ 53.99
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NZ$ 43.19
Hardback
h216 x 160mm - 368pg
3 Feb 2022 UK
International import eta 10-19 days
9781838955656
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A man arrives at a house on the coast to write a book. Separated from his lover and family and friends, he finds the solitude he craves in the pyrotechnic beauty of nature, just as the world he has shut out is experiencing a cataclysmic shift. The preoccupations that have galvanised him and his work fall away and he becomes lost in memory and beauty. He begins to tell us a story . . . A retired porn star who is made an offer he can' t refuse for the sake of his family and future. So he returns to the world he fled years before, all too aware of the danger of opening the door to past temptations and long-buried desires. Can he resist the oblivion and bliss they promise? A breathtakingly audacious novel by the acclaimed author of The Slap and Damascus about finding joy and beauty in a raging and punitive world, about the refractions of memory and time and, most subversive of all, the mystery of art and its creation.
Rejecting the rage of contemporary politics for a tender celebration of sensuality, nature, memory and love, 71/2 makes a defiant claim: that even now, as the world burns, beauty is worth our attention. In this thrilling mashup of autobiography, homage, film and fiction, Tsiolkas presents a rebellious paean to joy and artistic freedom. I' ve admired the risk and power of all his novels, but this might be riskiest of all-so personal, so delicate and true-and I love it. * Charlotte Wood, Stella Prize-winning author of The Weekend *
Christos Tsiolkas is the author of one collection of short stories and seven novels, including the international bestseller The Slap. His work has won, among other awards, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, the ALS Gold Medal and the Victorian Premier' s Literary Award for Fiction, and has been listed for the Booker Prize and the Miles Franklin Literary Award. He is also a playwright, essayist and screen writer. He lives in Melbourne.

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