Extinctions / Josephine Wilson.
Publisher: London : Serpent's Tail, 2018Description: 309 p. ; 23 cmISBN:- 9781788160766 (hbk.)
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| FIC/WIL A very British ending / | FIC WIL Fine, fine, fine, fine, fine / | FIC WIL Resolution / | FIC WIL Extinctions / | FIC WIL Witchfinder / | FIC WIL Now is not the time to panic : a novel / | FIC/WIN Dirt music / |
Winner of the prestigious Miles Franklin Award Professor Frederick Lothian, retired engineer, world expert on concrete and connoisseur of modernist design, has quarantined himself from life by moving to a retirement village. Surrounded and obstructed by the debris of his life, he is determined to be miserable, but is tired of his existence and of the life he has chosen. When a series of unfortunate incidents forces him and his neighbour, Jan, together, he begins to realise the damage done by the accumulation of a lifetime's secrets and lies, and to comprehend his own shortcomings. Finally, Frederick Lothian has the opportunity to build something meaningful for the ones he loves. Humorous, poignant and galvanising, this is a novel about all kinds of extinction - natural, racial, national and personal - and what we can do to prevent them. Copac
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