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An edition of Slow Man (2005)

Slow man

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A masterful new novel from one of the greatest writers alive.

Paul Rayment is on the threshold of a comfortable old age when a calamitous cycling accident results in the amputation of a leg. Humiliated, his body truncated, his life circumscribed, he turns away from his friends.

He hires a nurse named Marijana, with whom he has a European childhood in common: hers in Croatia, his in France. Tactfully and efficiently she ministers to his needs. But his feelings for her, and for her handsome teenage son, are complicated by the sudden arrival on his doorstep of the celebrated Australian novelist Elizabeth Costello, who threatens to take over the direction of his life and the affairs of his heart.

Unflinching in its vision of suffering and generous in its portrayal of the spirit of care, Slow Man is a masterful work of fiction by one of the world’s greatest writers.

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Viking
Language
English
Pages
265

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Subjects
Amputees, Fiction, Nurse and patient, Australian Women novelists, Women novelists, Fiction, general, Radfahrerunfall, Altern, Krankenschwester, Deutsch, Beinamputation, Englisch, Roman, Belletristische Darstellung, Hilfebedürftiger, Erotik, Ausgabe, Älterer Mann, Fiction, medical, Australia, fiction, New York Times reviewed, Authors, fiction, Fiction (fictional works by one author)
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823/.914
Library of Congress
PR9369.3.C58 S56 2005

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Pagination
265 p. ;
Number of pages
265

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OL3429819M
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slowman00coet
ISBN 10
0670034592
LCCN
2005054693
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1877683
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February 20, 2019 Edited by JeffKaplan merge authors
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