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Meet Eleanor Rigby: tiny, blind and left behind. Led by her zealous, overprotective guide dog, Warren, she courses constantly through the places she knows. Tired, mired and sequestered from the world, Eleanor can't shirk the feeling that she's going nowhere slowly.
Until, of course, she recognizes something in the sound of Ewan Dempsey, reclusive and compulsive maker and player of cellos, who impels in Eleanor a rare moment of caprice.
And so, played out amongst a cast of flawed and unusual characters in the last days of the year, the century, the millennium, Rhubarb is the story of two very damaged and distant people finding their way to a tenuous connection.
Until, of course, she recognizes something in the sound of Ewan Dempsey, reclusive and compulsive maker and player of cellos, who impels in Eleanor a rare moment of caprice.
And so, played out amongst a cast of flawed and unusual characters in the last days of the year, the century, the millennium, Rhubarb is the story of two very damaged and distant people finding their way to a tenuous connection.
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Rhubarb is the first novel from a young writer with an astonishing talent. With his sublime and playful use of language and his uncanny ability to reveal the human condition in all its vulnerability and fragility, Craig Silvey has created an extraordinary contemporary Australian story. It is a poignant and tender sort-of-love story about two damaged people tenuously connecting. Eleanor is blind and lives with her reclusive mother. Ewan is a cello player with agoraphobia. She is drawn to him through his music but cannot understand the difficulty he faces in forming a friendship. He does not understand her past nor the impact his music has on her. Amidst the heat of a Fremantle summer they stumble towards each other. Sad, funny and affecting, and peopled with characters that live and breathe, Rhubarb is simply a wonderful novel.
About the Author:
Craig Silvey is the winner of the Best Young Australian Novelist Award by the Sydney Morning Herald.
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- PublisherFremantle Pr
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 1920731911
- ISBN 13 9781920731915
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages331
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