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Lilian's Story
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A stunning first novel. Intensely imagined and original. -- Observer
This novel is bound for glory: it is original, moving, and
brilliantly convincing.
-- Vogue
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This novel is bound for glory: it is original, moving, and
brilliantly convincing.
-- Vogue
'This novel is bound for glory: it is original, moving, and brilliantly convincing.'
Vogue
Lilian Una Singer starts life as the daughter of a prosperous middle-class family. She ends it as a cheerfully eccentric bag-lady living on the streets, quoting Shakespeare for a living. How did she come to take this journey, and why did she make the choices she did?
The world presents Lilian with many obstacles, not least the fact that she is a woman. But in spite of everything, she triumphantly makes her life her own, savouring every moment with the reminder that 'everything matters'.
Lilian's Story is a wonderful, life-affirming novel from one of our most gifted writers.
'Lilian's Story takes you into another world, which is rare.'
Guardian
'Grenville's prose is breathtaking and her novel is a miracle of characterisation . . . This is a rare and beautiful book.'
Boston Globe
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- PublisherAllen & Unwin
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 1863730230
- ISBN 13 9781863730235
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number2
- Number of pages240
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LILIAN'S STORY
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Book Description Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good-. Reprint. PB, pictorial card covers, 227pp. Moderate rubbing to covers, inside has tanning to page edges & more so inside covers, two instances of text underlining, else square & tight. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Seller Inventory # jct005125
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Book Description Paperback. Shielded from emotional and physical abuse by layers of fat, Lilian struggles to escape a suffocating existence in the home of her tyrannical Victorian father and her elegant but ineffectual mother. Madness, cruelty and sexuality permeate the family's upper-crust Australian world.Lilian Una Singer starts life at the beginning of the twentieth century as the daughter of a prosperous middle-class Australian family. She ends it as a cheerfully eccentric bag-lady living on the streets, quoting Shakespeare. This book traces the progress of her life's journey, and why she made the choices she did. She's a person large in spirit as well as body, who wants to invent her own story, rather than allow it to be invented for her. Life presents her with many obstacles including the sinister advances of her father - but in spite of this she succeeds. Triumphantly she makes her life her own, savouring every moment with the reminder that 'everything matters'. 1991. Revised edition. A very good, clean copy. {"length"=>["19.5"], "width"=>["13"], "units"=>["Centimeters"]}. Seller Inventory # 12512236
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Book Description Condition: Very Good. Winner, Australian/Vogel Literary Award 1994 This is the story of Lilian Singer, born on 'a wild night in the year of Federation' into a stifling household which totally fails to subdue her. Madness, cruelty and sexuality permeate the household but Lilian's sights are set on education, love and - finally - her own transcendent forms of independence. Lilian Singer is, or becomes, that rare being: an eccentric true to her own self whose story reaches out to touch and delight the most discerning reader. Lilian's Story is the most loved of Kate Grenville's fictional creations. Lilian Singer radiates energy and vitality through every page of this striking work. 227 pages. Seller Inventory # 1382445
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Good - Some Wear. There is very slight browning to the page edges. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 063775
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