The Alphabet of Light and DarkAllen & Unwin, 2003 - 338 páginas Melding personal, familial, and colonial history, this evocative novel explores the importance of love, family, and self-discovery. A few trinkets found in a sea chest and the fragmented memories of her grandfather's tall tales are all Essie Lewis has left of her family history. After her grandfather's death, Essie returns to Bruny Island, Tasmania, and to the lighthouse where her great-great-grandfather kept watch for nearly 40 years. Beneath the lighthouse, she begins to write the stories of her ancestors. But the island is also home to Pete Shelverton, a sculptor who hunts feral cats to make his own peace with the past. As Essie writes, she finds that Pete is a part of the history she can never escape. |
Contenido
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Isthmus | 137 |
May | 139 |
June | 228 |
July | 301 |
Ocean | 313 |
September | 321 |
Historical notes and sources | 335 |
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Términos y frases comunes
Adventure Bay Alva AUSTRALIAN/VOGEL LITERARY AWARD Bass Strait beach begin beneath birds bloke blood blue body breath bright Bruny Bruny Island cape Charlie Charlie's child circle Cloudy Bay cold colour curve dark dinghy door drift earth edge Essie Essie's eyes face Farley father feels felt fingers fish glass green grey hair hands head Horse Latitudes imagines inside island keeper knew Knoydart lantern light lighthouse Lighthouse Bay Lightkeepers living Loch Nevis look Lydia Macquarie Island metal mother mouth nacre never night ocean pale Pete Pete's piece pulled remembers sail sand shape ship shore side skin skirt smell standing stone story surface Tasmania tell thick thin things thinks thylacine tide timber told tower Truganini turned vessel walked wall wanted watched waves Westwood William Westwood wind window woman words Yarmouth
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Página 288 - I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky, And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by...
Página 47 - No treading in the footsteps of ancestors, no imagining what's happened to some poor bastard on that square of earth.
Página 153 - At some time in prehistory, he had said, when the surface of the earth was molten, the entire outer layer of the world...