Tracy Farr

The Life and Loves of Lena Gaunt (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Longlisted for the 2014 Miles Franklin Literary Award



Tracy Farr's acclaimed debut novel is the fictional memoir of Dame Lena Gaunt: musician, octogenarian, junkie.



'Compelling reading' The Listener



I hold one regret from that day: that I put my first love, my cello, aside. But it was to take up a bigger love, a greater thing; it was to step into the future. Music's Most Modern Instrument. And I was to become Music's Most Modern Musician.



Tracy Farr's debut novel is the fictional memoir of Dame Lena Gaunt: musician, octogenarian, junkie. Documentary filmmaker Mo Patterson approaches veteran musician Lena Gaunt after watching her play at a festival in Perth: her first performance in 20 years.



While initially suspicious of Mo's intentions and reluctant to have her privacy invaded, Lena finds herself sharing stories from her past.



From a solitary childhood in Malacca and a Perth boarding school, to a glittering career in Jazz-age Sydney, to quiet domesticity in a New-Zealand backwater, Lena's is a life characterized by the pull of the sea, the ebb and flow of passion and loss, and her enduring relationship with that extraordinary instrument, the theremin.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Gallic Books
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Altersempfehlung: ab 18 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781910709108
• Artikelnr.: 44367156

Autorenporträt

Born in Melbourne, Tracy grew up in Perth, and studied Science and Arts at the University of Western Australia. Since 1996 she's lived in Wellington, New Zealand. Her debut novel The Life and Loves of Lena Gaunt (Fremantle Press, 2013) was longlisted for the 2014 Miles Franklin Literary Award, as well as shortlisted for the 2014 Western Australian Premier's Book Awards and the 2014 Barbara Jefferis Award.