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About frimframHome Region: Favorite novels: Closely Observed Trains (Bohumil Hrabal); The Line of Beauty (Alan Hollinghurst); The Engineer of Human Souls (Joseph Skvorecky); The Museum of Unconditional Surrender (Dubravka Ugresic); Norwegian Wood (Haruki Murakami); Number9dream (David Mitchell); Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Conan Doyle); Tales of the City series (Armistead Maupin); Three Men in a Boat (Jerome K. Jerome); The Unconsoled (Kazuo Ishiguro); Regeneration trilogy (Pat Barker); Slaughterhouse 5 (Kurt Vonnegut); The Big Nowhere (James Ellroy) |
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Synopsis: In The Sound A Thought
Alexander Dunn, unbowed by Arras, an abortive affair, or the hardships and hypocrisies of post-armistice London, is brought low at last when a sex scandal robs him of his Whitehall sinecure. Stripped of his reputation and friendships, Dunn quits England for the South Seas. There he seeks the counsel of expat Peter Graham, an old Oxford chum and former priest turned establishment-terrorizing novelist, in whose company Dunn grapples with his lost faith and alienation from British society. Tahitian culture, his visionary friend's worsening health, and a growing fascination for a hardy Kiwi botanist named Edie all propel Dunn toward a new vision of God and nature, sex and death, order and chaos.
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The story is based partly on the life of Robert Keable, whose literary creation Peter Graham was a thinly-veiled avatar of the author. I'm drawing on Keable's own biography to imagine what happened next for Graham after his final appearance in ''Recompence''.
Guaranteed 100% more straight people than my '08 Nano effort.
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