A New Map of the Universe - Softcover
Grace dreams of designing a house for her lover, Michael, a place where they can begin their life together. But before she can step into her future with Michael, Grace must journey into the past to confront its crippling legacy of silence and secrets.
This lyrical, engaging novel spans two generations and both hemispheres as Grace navigates her new map of the universe. It is a story about grief and passion, architecture and astronomy, but above all it is a story about finding yourself.
This lyrical, engaging novel spans two generations and both hemispheres as Grace navigates her new map of the universe. It is a story about grief and passion, architecture and astronomy, but above all it is a story about finding yourself.
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It is a tree house, she begins, a house with roots that go deeper than the trees themselves can reach. It is a house that breathes, that draws life from the soil in which it is planted, that turns its leaves to catch the rain...
Or it is a boathouse, a house that floats, that rises and falls with the tide. It is sometimes anchored, sometimes unmoored: a house that drifts with the current, raises its sails to catch the wind, rides the heaving waves to shore.
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Or it is a boathouse, a house that floats, that rises and falls with the tide. It is sometimes anchored, sometimes unmoored: a house that drifts with the current, raises its sails to catch the wind, rides the heaving waves to shore.
It takes great confidence to write extended passages of eroticism or imaginative longing, and to include them in a narrative that also movingly portrays grief, inarticulate isolation, and cruelty. Annabel Smith has achieved this.
Andrew Taylor, poet
Grace's story, enfolding the stories of her parents, is constructed into a sensual, intricate narrative - itself a meditation on space and silence.
Delys Bird, Westerly editor
Andrew Taylor, poet
Grace's story, enfolding the stories of her parents, is constructed into a sensual, intricate narrative - itself a meditation on space and silence.
Delys Bird, Westerly editor
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- PublisherUwa Pub
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 1920694552
- ISBN 13 9781920694555
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages247
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