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The Golden Age

by Joan London
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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.
'Perfect' PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY
'Brilliant' THE MONTHLY
'Graceful' HELEN GARNER
'Generous-hearted' KIRKUS REVIEWS
'Rich' HISTORICAL NOVEL SOCIETY
'Elegiac' FORWARD
'Transcendent' THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS

Formats

  • OverDrive Read
  • EPUB ebook

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Languages

  • English