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The Wilderness (Paperback)
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The Wilderness (Paperback)
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Loot Price R496
Discovery Miles 4 960
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It's Jake's birthday. He is sitting in a small plane, being flown
over the landscape that has been the backdrop to his life - his
childhood, his marriage, his work, his passions. Now he is in his
mid-sixties, and he isn't quite the man he used to be. He has lost
his wife, his son is in prison, and he is about to lose his past.
Jake has Alzheimer's.
As the disease takes hold of him, Jake struggles to hold on to his
personal story, to his memories and identity, but they become
increasingly elusive and unreliable. What happened to his daughter?
Is she alive, or long dead? And why exactly is his son in prison?
What went so wrong in his life? There was a cherry tree once, and a
yellow dress, but what exactly do they mean? As Jake fights the
inevitable dying of the light, the key events of his life keep
changing as he tries to grasp them, and what until recently seemed
solid fact is melting into surreal dreams or nightmarish
imaginings. Is there anything he'll be able to salvage from the
wreckage? Beauty, perhaps, the memory of love, or nothing at all?
From the first sentence to the last, "The Wilderness" holds us in
its grip. This is writing of extraordinary power and beauty.
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