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Publisher details
- Author
- Joan London
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Genres
- Fiction, Historical Fiction
- Released
- 01 August, 2014
- ISBN
- 9781741666441
The Golden Age
Synopsis
It is 1954 and thirteen-year-old Frank Gold, refugee from wartime Hungary, is learning to walk again after contracting polio in Australia. At The Golden Age Children's Polio Convalescent Hospital in Perth, he sees Elsa, a fellow-patient, and they form a forbidden, passionate bond.The Golden Age becomes the little world that reflects the larger one, where everything occurs, love and desire, music, death, and poetry. Where children must learn that they are alone, even within their families.Written in Joan London's customary clear-eyed prose, The Golden Age evokes a time past and a yearning for deep connection. It is a rare and precious gem of a book from one of Australia's finest novelists."London's prose is a seamlessly shifting blend of poetry, pathos and humor" - Washington Post
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