An artist is commissioned to weave the portraits of a random selection of townsfolk in Lost River. For this task he must interview each one -fifty-two in all, one for every week of the year - to discern the ges-tures by which he must portray them. His work becomes an odyssey through humankind, its social, political, sexual, humourous and spiritual aspects. The chosen frew are enlightened, insane, fools, psychopathes, mindless materialists. . . poeple who have caught a glimpse of something strange, perhaps the borders of a ...
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An artist is commissioned to weave the portraits of a random selection of townsfolk in Lost River. For this task he must interview each one -fifty-two in all, one for every week of the year - to discern the ges-tures by which he must portray them. His work becomes an odyssey through humankind, its social, political, sexual, humourous and spiritual aspects. The chosen frew are enlightened, insane, fools, psychopathes, mindless materialists. . . poeple who have caught a glimpse of something strange, perhaps the borders of a world behind the everyday. The weaver's subjects are haunted by the death of one of their number while he in turn is haunted by thoughts of Yarrow, the woman whose absence underscores his existence.
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Add this copy of The Chosen to cart. $12.10, very good condition, Sold by Friends of the Phoenix Library rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Phoenix, AZ, UNITED STATES, published 1998 by Vintage Books.
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. 8vo. 520pp. Papered boards in dust-jacket. From the blurb, 'a profound and witty vision of humanity by one of the great masters of Australian writing'.
