The Death of Noah Glass - Softcover

Gail Jones

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1925603407 ISBN 13: 9781925603408

Publisher: Text Publishing Company, 2018

Synopsis

The art historian Noah Glass, having just returned from a trip to Sicily, is discovered floating face down in the swimming pool at his Sydney apartment block. His adult children, Martin and Evie, must come to terms with the shock of their father's death. But a sculpture has gone missing from a museum in Palermo, and Noah is a suspect. The police are investigating. None of it makes any sense. Martin sets off to Palermo in search of answers about his father's activities, while Evie moves into Noah's apartment, waiting to learn where her life might take her. Retracing their father's steps in their own way, neither of his children can see the path ahead.

Gail Jones's mesmerising new novel tells a story about parents and children, and explores the overlapping patterns that life makes. The Death of Noah Glass is about love and art, about grief and happiness, about memory and the mystery of time.

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Review:

'Beautifully lit...Jones' writing demands that the read slow down in order to enjoy every word. Martin is an artist, but then again so is the author, and she too notices hue, texture and nuance.' Big Issue

'The Death of Noah Glass is a transportive novel, dreamy and evocative, and full of richly-drawn characters. It's sure to send first-time readers of Gail Jones on a journey through her extensive back catalogue.' Culturefly

'This is a novel dominated by rich and vivid descriptions of personal interiors and public exteriors, of thought processes and intense associations wrought by the places Martin and Evie find themselves as they uncover truths.' Herald Sun

'In all of Gail Jones's writing, words bump up against images from art and cinema - visual keys to convey what narrative may not.' Saturday Paper

"Told masterfully from the perspective of three finely drawn characters, The Death of Noah Glass combines an enjoyable escapade involving art theft, mafia conspiracy, romance and a suspicious death with a literary exploration of grief, identity and the power of the past to damage present lives. Fans of Jones will not be disappointed, and new readers should find much to recommend it." Books+Publishing

'The Death of Noah Glass is among (Jones's) finest work and I expect it will be among this year's outstanding novels.' Australian

'The plot is one of Jones's most straightforward, but as always it is the links and echoes, the patterns that she sees in life and the way such patterns are represented and become part of our internal landscape that inform and fascinate, and make her work so rewarding.' Adelaide Advertiser

'The Death of Noah Glass is a superb novel full of sadness and mystery. It further confirms Gail Jones's reputation as one of our great writers.' Readings

'...Swooningly lyrical, carrying the reader along in the wake of its beauty.' --Australian Book Review

' From the Renaissance to the contemporary era, from Italy to Australia and back via Japan, Jones demonstrates not a quaint equivalence between the sister arts, but an unruly dynamic of disjunction, rupture, play and appropriation that sets off a force field of narrative and semiotic energies.' Sydney Review of Books

' A complex piece of fiction, carefully assembled and exquisitely executed.' A Life in Books

'Jones displays a formidable, eclectic knowledge that she distributes among her characters...an intellectually strenuous entertainment concerned with the nature and loss of senses, of filial obligations and their cost, of the vertiginous role of chance. Jones has challenged herself and her readers in another rich and accomplished work.' -- Sydney Morning Herald

'In poetic prose that calls for slower reading to fully appreciate its metaphoric meaning, the narrative, as the mystery is untangled, explores the effects of grief and loss and the theme of time. You could re-read this book for the pleasure and stimulation of the language alone.' --Good Reading

Weaving together multiple narratives (Noah's, Martin's, and Evie's), the novel sketches a family portrait full of love, loss, and regret.' --Kirkus

About the Author:

The author of seven novels and two collections of stories, Gail Jones is one of Australia's most celebrated writers. Her work has been translated into twelve languages, awarded several prizes in Australia. Internationally her fiction has been longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Orange Prize and shortlisted for the IMPAC Award and the Prix Femina Etranger. She lives in Glebe, NSW.

About this edition

• Publisher: Text Publishing Company
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1925603407
• ISBN 13: 9781925603408
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320