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The Golden Age by London, Joan

ISBN: 9780857989000 PUBLISHER: Vintage (Australia) FORMAT: Paperback PAGES: 256 PUBLICATION DATE: 3.08.2015 DIMENSIONS: 19 x 13 x 1 centimetres

DESCRIPTION: 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. Written in Joan London's customary clear-eyed prose, The Golden Age evokes a time past and a yearning for deep connection. It is a rare and precious gem of a book from one of Australia's finest novelists.

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