The Living Sea of Waking Dreams
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The Living Sea of Waking Dreams by Richard Flanagan
'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 Anna can do is keep her mother alive. But the window keeps opening wider, taking Anna and the reader ever deeper into a strangely beautiful novel about hope, love and orange-bellied parrots. 'One of our greatest living novelists' Washington Post
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 in the world today - I admire him and his writing immensely. The Living Sea of Waking Dreams is a haunting, urgent and important book about our broken and confusing age -- James Rebanks
Striking... brilliantly done... Flanagan is wise enough to place his wider concerns, and the accompanying magic realism within the sturdy framework of a conventional family narrative * The Times *
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 in the world today - I admire him and his writing immensely. The Living Sea of Waking Dreams is a haunting, urgent and important book about our broken and confusing age -- James Rebanks
Striking... brilliantly done... Flanagan is wise enough to place his wider concerns, and the accompanying magic realism within the sturdy framework of a conventional family narrative * The Times *
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 Commonwealth Prize for Gould’s Book of Fish and the Booker Prize for The Narrow Road to the Deep North. Question 7 was shortlisted for the Prix Femina étranger and the Prix du meilleur livre étranger as a novel, and won the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction. He is the first and only author ever to have won both the Booker and Baillie Gifford prizes. A major television series of The Narrow Road to the Deep North is forthcoming, directed by Justin Kurzel and starring Jacob Elordi and Ciarán Hinds.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781529114058 |
| ISBN 10 | 1529114055 |
| Title | The Living Sea of Waking Dreams |
| Author | Richard Flanagan |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2022-01-13 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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