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Autumn Laing by Alex Miller

Autumn Laing seduces Pat Donlon with her pearly thighs and her lust for life and art. In doing so she not only compromises the trusting love she has with her husband, Arthur, she also steals the future from Pat's young and beautiful wife, Edith, and their unborn child. Fifty-three years later, cantankerous, engaging, unrestrainable 85-year-old Autumn is shocked to find within herself a powerful need for redemption. As she begins to tell her story, she writes, 'They are all dead and I am old and skeleton-gaunt. This is where it began...' Written with compassion and intelligence, this energetic, funny and wise novel peels back the layers of storytelling and asks what truth has to do with it. Autumn Laing is an unflinchingly intimate portrait of a woman and her time - she is unforgettable.

ISBN: 9781742378510
ISBN-10: 174237851X
Classification: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Format: Hardback (228mm x 150mm x mm)
Pages: 464
Imprint: Allen & Unwin
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Publish Date: 1-Oct-2011
Country of Publication: Australia

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Fans of Alex Miller’s Lovesong will be pleased to find another love story at the heart of Autumn Laing. As the last surviving member of her once-thriving artistic circle, 85-year-old Autumn is moved to write about her affair with Australian artist Patrick Donlon and the nearcatastrophic effects their relationship had on those closest to them. The story skips from present to past, each of Autumn’s written reflections interspersed with comments from her cantankerous older self as she struggles with guilt, loss and the debilities of age. It can be hard to maintain tension across such a disjointed narrative, but for the most part Miller handles it well. He tends to foreshadow the emotional impact of events long before describing the events themselves, which renders the final chapters somewhat anticlimactic. However, his characters are masterfully drawn, and his portrayal of the older Autumn in particular is compassionate yet gently amusing....

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Author Biography - Alex Miller

Alex Miller is the author of The Ancestor Game and Journey to the Stone Country (both of which won the Miles Franklin Literary Award), Conditions of Faith, Landscape of Farewell, and Lovesong.

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