Eucalyptus - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0676972373 ISBN 13 : 9780676972375

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Winner of the 1999 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book

A New York Times Notable Book of 1998

"There is such delight in Eucalyptus, such a strange and sly and swerving humour -- You will never forget what is at the heart of this novel -- one of the great and most surprising courtships in literature."
--Michael Ondaatje

Amidst the spearing light and broken shadows of Australia's Outback, a man named Holland raises his daughter, Ellen. As she grows into a woman of unusual beauty, he tends an orchard that boasts every species of eucalyptus. When Ellen is nineteen, her father makes an announcement: she will marry the man who can successfully name each tree. What emerges is a story scintillating with sudden wisdom and spiky truths, a modern-day fairy tale that affirms the seductive power of storytelling itself.

Revue de presse

"Incandescent ... [Eucalyptus] bristles with psychosexual tension as it addresses the human urges to manipulate, possess and surrender — in other words, the whole imbroglio of Love with a capital L."
—New York Times Book Review

"Charming, amusing, seductive and — beguiling — A splendid novel of startling originality."
—The Toronto Star

"[Eucalyptus is] as languorous as the pools of sunlight beneath the eucalyptus...Murray Bail is the master of his web...spun entirely of language."
—The Globe and Mail

"There is such a delight in Eucalyptus, such a strange and sly and swerving humour.... You will never forget what is at the heart of this novel — one of the great and most surprising courtships in literature."
—Michael Ondaatje

Détails de l'édition

• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0676972373
• ISBN 13: 9780676972375
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 264
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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