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The Golden Age

The Golden Age

By Joan London

Paperback / softback | ISBN 9780143790266

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This is a story of resilience, the irrepressible, enduring nature of love, and the fragility of life, from one of Australia's most loved novelists.

It is 1954 and thirteen-year-old Frank Gold, refugee from wartime Hungary, is learning to walk again after contracting polio in Australia. At the Golden Age Children's Polio Convalescent Home in Perth, he sees Elsa, a fellow patient, and they form a forbidden, passionate bond. The Golden Age becomes the little world that reflects the larger one, where everything occurs- love and desire, music, death, and poetry. It is a place where children must learn they're alone, even within their families.

Subtle, moving and remarkably lovely, The Golden Age evokes a time past and a yearning for deep connection, from one of Australia's finest and most-loved novelists.

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BOOK DETAILS

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN: 9780143790266
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Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia
Number of pages: 256
Width (mm): 129
Height (mm): 193
Depth (mm): 19

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