Edité par Random House Australia, 2012
ISBN 10 : 1742755127 ISBN 13 : 9781742755120
Vendeur : WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Royaume-Uni
Paperback. Etat : Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Edité par Random House Australia, North Sydney NSW, 2012
ISBN 10 : 1742755127 ISBN 13 : 9781742755120
Vendeur : Book Merchant Bookstore, Bunbury, WA, Australie
Soft cover. Etat : Near Fine. 3rd Edition. Near fine condition. Van Diemen's Land, 1841. Mathinna, the adopted Aboriginal daughter of the island's governor, Sir John Franklin, and his wife, Lady Jane, sits for her portrait. She is the subject of a grand experiment in civilisation - one that will determine whether science and reason can be imposed in place of savagery and desire. Years pass. Sir John Franklin disappears on an Arctic expedition to find the fabled Northwest Passage. England is horrified as reports of cannibalism filter back from search parties, no one more so than the most celebrated novelist of the day, Charles Dickens, for whom Franklin's story becomes a means to plumb the frozen depths of his own soul. As several lives become entwined, Wanting transforms the classical myth of Leda and the swan into a novel about the ways in which desire - and its denial - shape us all. (publisher blurb).