The bell of the world
Day, Gregory2024
Book
**Shortlisted, Miles Franklin Literary Award 2024** When a troubled Sarah Hutchinson returns to Australia from boarding school in England and time spent in Europe, she is sent to live with her eccentric Uncle Ferny on the family property, Ngangahook. With the sound of the ocean surrounding everything they do on the farm, Sarah and her uncle form an inspired bond hosting visiting field naturalists and holding soirees in which Sarah performs on a piano whose sound she has altered with items and objects from the bush and shore. As Sarah's world is nourished by music and poetry, Ferny's life is marked by Such is Life, a book he has read and reread, so much so that the volume is falling apart. Its saviour is Jones the Bookbinder of Moolap, who performs a miraculous act. To shock and surprise, Jones interleaves Ferny's volume with a book he bought from an American sailor, a once obscure tale of whales and the sea. In art as in life nature seems supreme.
Main title:
The bell of the world / Gregory Day.
Author:
Day, Gregory, author
Work:
Imprint:
Melbourne, Victoria : Transit Lounge, 2024.©2023
Collation:
407 pages ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
9781923023246 (paperback)
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2281412