Question 7
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4.3 • 45 Ratings
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- $15.99
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Publisher Description
By way of H. G. Wells and Rebecca West’s affair through 1930s nuclear physics to Flanagan's father working as a slave labourer near Hiroshima when the atom bomb is dropped, this daisy chain of events reaches fission when Flanagan as a young man finds himself trapped in a rapid on a wild river not knowing if he is to live or to die.
At once a love song to his island home and to his parents, this hypnotic melding of dream, history, place and memory is about how our lives so often arise out of the stories of others and the stories we invent about ourselves.
Customer Reviews
Thought provoking
Love, life, loss and synchronicity.
What did I really think?
I started out confused - this book seems to pull you in do many directions.
It lead me down paths I didn’t expect - drew me into researching/ looking into weird side lines … not something I’d experienced a lot.
Was captivated by many sections, and yet able to gloss over others.
I’ll let you work out which are your favourite sections … in the end I had several, and they were all unrelated to each other … weird, surprising and unexpectedly great after a funny start.
Give it a crack and see where it leads you …???
Absolute masterpiece
What an absolute joy this was to savour and read. It’s written beautifully and effortlessly, with so many passages begging to be dwelled upon and reread.