Once a fêted literary figure, the former lover of B-list movie
star Lucida, but now derelict, incontinent, asexual, ageing poet
Harold Lime turns his back on material modernity, withdrawing to a
basement in the university town of Cambridge, England. But human
connections will prove difficult to sever completely, and he is
drawn out of himself by a fox hunt saboteur (“the sab woman”),
with whom he forms a poignant, uneasy relationship and who acts as
his mutual confessor. In the isolation of his basement, Harold Lime
obsessively listens to Mahler, whose nine symphonies, unfinished
tenth, and Earth Songs, each corresponding to a separate chapter of
this innovative poetic novel, will reawaken the sensitivities he
has tried to erase, taking him back to his Australian childhood and
youth, fostering a growing awareness of intertwined body and soul,
of commitment and connectedness, of the ecology of rootedness and
unrootedness in an unjust world.
General
| Imprint: |
Dalkey Archive Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Series: |
Australian Literature Series |
| Release date: |
October 2023 |
| Authors: |
John Kinsella
|
| Dimensions: |
215 x 139mm (L x W) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
218 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-62897-497-3 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
1-62897-497-4 |
| Barcode: |
9781628974973 |
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