1
of
1
Wish: Text Classics
Ratings/reviews counts are updated frequently.
Check link for latest rating. ( 238 ratings, 26 reviews)
Book Hero Magic crafted this summary to help describe this book. While it's new and still
learning, it may not be perfect - your
feedback is welcome!
Summary
Read More
Format: Paperback / softback
$1799
Unit price
/
Unavailable
AVAILABLE WITH SUPPLIER
Ships from our Auckland warehouse within 2-3 weeks
Found a better price? Request a price match
Wish: Text Classics
$1799
Unit price
/
Unavailable
Book Hero Magic created this recommendation. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! IS THIS YOUR NEXT READ?
Wish: Text Classics
Adrift after his divorce, J.J. takes a job teaching sign language to a gorilla. Their relationship takes an unexpected turn...
* Introduction to be placed with newspaper or magazine as an extract * Select events to be organised around publication * Review coverage in press and literary magazines * Online review coverage * Promotional giveaways to be organised with media * Featured in Text newsletters and website * Reading copies available to the trade * Advertisements in literary and current affairs publications such as the Monthly and on their websites * Promotions and giveaways with targeted subscriber groups, including book lovers such as CAE * Feature title in Text newsletters and website
Book Hero Magic formatted this description to make it easier to read. While it's new and
still learning, it may not be perfect - your
feedback is welcome!
Description
"I'm not deaf, but I've always felt more at home in Sign. Both my parents are deaf. Deaf as posts. Deaf as adders, deaf as beetles. And proud as peacocks, Deaf Pride long before there was a word, or a sign, for it. I learnt to speak with my hands from birth; there was no other way of reaching my parents..."
J.J. is back living at home in Adelaide, unemployed and drifting after a messy divorce. Then he is offered a job teaching Sign to Eliza. His new pupil is smart, sensitive, attractive - and a gorilla recently liberated from a medical research laboratory by animal rights activists.
First published in 1995, the third novel by the acclaimed writer Peter Goldsworthy is unique in Australian literature — a dazzling, moving story about scientific experimentation and ethics, language and love. This edition comes with a new introduction by James Bradley.
Book Hero Magic summarised reviews for this book. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! HOW HAS THIS BEEN REVIEWED?
Wish: Text Classics by Peter Goldsworthy is praised for its intellectual challenge and playful nature, showcasing a restless imagination. Reviewers highlight its stylishness, imagination, and poignancy, noting it as unsettling yet deeply satisfying. The novel is recognised for representing a significant achievement in Goldsworthy's body of work, with a recommendation that it offers a unique experience unlike any other novel.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781922147035
Publisher: Text Publishing
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 24 July 2013
Country: Australia
Imprint: The Text Publishing Company
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 25.0mm
Width: 132.0mm
Height: 200.0mm
Weight: 287g
Pages: 400
About the Author
Peter Goldsworthy grew up in various Australian country towns, finishing his schooling in Darwin. After graduating in medicine from the University of Adelaide in 1974 he worked for several years in alcohol and drug rehabilitation, but since then has divided his working time between general practice and writing. He has won major literary awards across a range of genres- poetry, short story, novels, theatre, and opera libretti. Goldsworthy's novels have sold over 400 000 copies in Australia alone, and have been translated into European and Asian languages. His novels have three times been shortlisted for the NSW Christina Stead Fiction Prize, and twice for the Miles Franklin Award. Three Dog Night won the 2004 FAW Christina Stead Award, and was longlisted for the Dublin IMPAC prize. In 2003, his first novel, Maestro, was voted by members of the Australian Society of Authors as one of the Top 40 Australian books of all time. Five of his novels are currently being adapted for the screen, and two more - Wish and Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam - for the stage. His most recent novel, Everything I Knew, published in 2008, was shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Fiction Prize. A new collection of short stories, Gravel, was published in 2010. petergoldsworthy.com
Also by Peter Goldsworthy
View all-
The Cancer Finishing School
Paperback$3600Elsewhere:$4000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
-
-
More from General Fiction
View all-
-
-
-
Twilight Deluxe Collector's Edition
Hardback$5500Elsewhere:$6500Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today -
New ReleaseOperation Bounce House
Paperback$3199Elsewhere:$3800Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today -
-
-
15% offThe Alchemist, 25th Anniversary
Paperback$1700Elsewhere:$2499Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today -
-
New Release -
-
The Wrath of the Fallen
Paperback$3200Elsewhere:$3799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
Why buy from us?
Book Hero is not a chain store or big box retailer. We're an independent 100% NZ-owned business on a mission to help more Kiwis rediscover a love of books and reading!
Service & Delivery
Our warehouse in Auckland holds over 80,000 books and puzzles in-stock so you're not waiting for your order to arrive from overseas.
Auckland Bookstore
We're primarily an online store, but for your convenience you can pick up your order for free from our bookstore, which is right next door to our warehouse in Hobsonville.
Our Gifting Service
Books make wonderful thoughtful gifts and we're here to help with gift-wrapping and cards. We can even send your gift directly to your loved one.
