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Critically acclaimed, two-time winner of the Miles Franklin award, winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize and numerous other literary awards, Miller's new work is an exquisitely personal novel of love and creativity.
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The Passage of Love is capacious, wise, and startlingly honest about human frailty and the permutations of love over time. Frankly autobiographical, it is also a work of fully achieved fiction, ripe with experience, double-voiced, populated with unpredictable men and women, and set in Miller's landscapes that characteristically throb with life. β Morag Fraser, Australian Book Review
Sitting in a New York park, an old man holds a book and tries to accept that his contribution to the future is over. Instead, he remembers a youthful yearning for open horizons, for Australia, a yearning he now knows inspired his life as a writer. Instinctively he picks up his pen and starts at the beginning...
At twenty-one years, Robert Crofts leaves his broken dreams in Far North Queensland, finally stopping in Melbourne almost destitute. It's there he begins to understand how books and writing might be the saving of him.
When Robert is introduced to Lena Soren, beautiful, rich, and educated, his life takes a very different path. But in the intimacy of their connection lies an unknowability that both torments and tantalises as Robert and Lena long for something that neither can provide for the other.
Alex Miller is magnificent in this most personal of all novels filled with rare wisdom and incisive observation.
Half a dozen of Miller's novels are likely to be judged among the finest of the past quarter century. They were written in the course of a career that has showcased Miller's subtlety, narrative craft, moral acuity, and delight in writing about what he loves. β The Weekend Australian
A thoughtful autobiographical work by an award-winning Australian novelist... traces themes of art and commitment through Crofts' relationships with three women. Miller pulls back from the narrative several times in interludes that return to the first person of the much older man and highlight how memory has many layers. A rich addition to the growing shelf of autofiction from a seasoned storyteller. β Kirkus (starred review)
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ISBN: 9781760529888
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 03 September 2019
Country: Australia
Imprint: Allen & Unwin
Audience: General / adult
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Width: 128.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 518g
Pages: 600
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About the Author
All of Alex Miller's novels have been critically acclaimed and have won or been shortlisted in all of the major Australian literary awards. He is twice winner of Australia's premier literary prize, the Miles Franklin Literary Award, and is an overall winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for The Ancestor Game. In 2015, The Simplest Words, Alex Miller's first collection of stories, memoir, commentary and poetry, was published to great acclaim.
Alex Miller is published internationally and his works have been widely translated.
www.alexmiller.com.au
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