Extinctions

Wilson, Josephine
Extinctions

Extinctions

Wilson, Josephine

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WINNER of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2017

WINNER of the Dorothy Hewett Award for an Unpublished Manuscript

WINNER of the Colin Roderick Award 2017

SHORTLISTED for the Prime Minister's Award for Fiction

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. His wife, Martha, is dead and his two adult children are lost to him in their own ways. Surrounded and obstructed by the debris of his life — objects he has collected over many years and tells himself he is keeping for his daughter — 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 sharp-eyed neighbour, Jan, together, Frederick Lothian has the chance to realise the damage done by the accumulation of a lifetime’s secrets and lies, and to comprehend his own shortcomings. Can he finally build something meaningful for the ones he loves?

Author:   Wilson, Josephine
Publisher:   UWA Publishing
ISBN:  

9781760801526


Pages:   340
Publication Date:   20 April 2020
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WINNER of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2017

WINNER of the Dorothy Hewett Award for an Unpublished Manuscript

WINNER of the Colin Roderick Award 2017

SHORTLISTED for the Prime Minister's Award for Fiction

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. His wife, Martha, is dead and his two adult children are lost to him in their own ways. Surrounded and obstructed by the debris of his life — objects he has collected over many years and tells himself he is keeping for his daughter — 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 sharp-eyed neighbour, Jan, together, Frederick Lothian has the chance to realise the damage done by the accumulation of a lifetime’s secrets and lies, and to comprehend his own shortcomings. Can he finally build something meaningful for the ones he loves?

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Author:   Wilson, Josephine
Publisher:   UWA Publishing
ISBN:  

9781760801526


Pages:   340
Publication Date:   20 April 2020
Availability:  
This item is in stock and will be dispatched immediately.
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