Trent Dalton, Australia's best-loved writer, sat on a busy street corner with a sky-blue Olivetti typewriter and asked the world a simple, direct question: Can you please tell me a love story?A blind man yearns to see the face of his wife of 30 years. A divorced mother has a secret affair with a travelling priest. A widower miraculously finds a three-minute video recorded by his wife before she died. A lumberjack's heart falls in a forest. A working mum contemplates taking the photographs of her late husband down from the fridge. A girl writes her last letter to the grandfather she adored, then sets it on fire. A palliative care nurse helps a dying woman converse with the angel at the end of her bed. A renowned 100-year-old scientist ponders the one great earthly puzzle he was never able to solve: What is love?Endless stories. Human stories. Love stories.
ISBN: | 9780008520533 |
Publisher: | HarperCollins Publishers |
Imprint: | The Borough Press |
Published date: | 04 Aug 2022 |
DEWEY: | 823.92 |
DEWEY edition: | 23 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 337 |
Weight: | 242g |
Height: | 129mm |
Width: | 197mm |
Spine width: | 25mm |