Slow Man

Knopf, Sydney, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. First impression. Size: Octavo 8vo (standard book size). 265 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Pages are lightly toned throughout. Dust Jacket is in very good condition, without tears or chips or other damage. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. The book is available and will be PACKAGED professionally, DISPATCHED promptly and a TRACKING NUMBER will be advised by Australia Post.. 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. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Fiction; Contemporary fiction; 2000s; ISBN: 1741660688. ISBN/EAN: 9781741660685. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 10553. . 9781741660685