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The Bath Fugues

By Brian Castro
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The Bath Fugues by Brian Castro weaves together three interconnected narratives, playing with themes of memory, identity, and art. The book centres on a series of characters whose lives intersect in unexpected ways, revealing their personal struggles and obsessions. Through its rich and lyrical prose, the novel explores the complexities of human relationships and the search for meaning.
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The Bath Fugues

A meditation on melancholy and art, in the form of three interwoven novellas, centred respectively on an ageing art forger; a Portuguese poet, opium addict and art collector; and a doctor, who has built an art gallery in tropical Queensland. These characters are tied by more than their art, each stretching the bonds of trust and friendship.

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The Bath Fugues is a meditation on melancholy and art, in the form of three interwoven novellas. The stories centre respectively on an ageing art forger, a Portuguese poet and opium addict who is also an art collector, and a doctor who has built an art gallery in tropical Queensland.

These characters are tied by more than their art, each dealing with questions of deception and discovery, counterfeiting and rewriting, transmission and identity. Each character stretches the bonds of trust and friendship in their own unique way.

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ISBN: 9781920882556

Publisher: Giramondo Publishing Co

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 12 May 2009

Country: Australia

Imprint: Giramondo Publishing Co

Illustration: Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

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Weight: 0g

Pages: 258

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About the Author

Brian Castro's Shanghai Dancing, published by Giramondo in 2003, won the Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction, the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction and the NSW Premier's Book of the Year Award; his most recent novel, The Garden Book (2005), was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award and won the Queensland Premier's Award for Fiction.

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