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Leonora - back to Jeanie's roots and family. Matthew's father, Archie, is dying and he spends three weeks out of four caring for him in The Wounded Sinner , his grand, decaying family home. Whilst Matthew is away, Jeanie stays and works as a teacher and looks after their five children. Their eldest, Jaylene, is hitting adolescence and is challenging Jeanie's self-image and burgeoning sense of identity.On a hot desolate day in the West Australian hinterland, Matthew's car finally breaks down. Vince, whose own family is falling apart in unanticipated ways, stops to pick him up and, in amongst the chaos of their lives, an unlikely friendship is formed.In this unforgettable debut, The Wounded Sinner shines a light on growing old, fidelity and identity which run through this unique and gritty novel, in which all are asking the ultimate questions about life, death and the purpose of it all. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Anyway, my discovery of The Wounded Sinner coincided with the re-opening of my library, and I don’t need to tell you how wonderful that is! I do have lots of books of my own to read, but going to the library has been part of my life since I was a very small girl, and I had missed it…
The Wounded Sinner is a gritty novel. Woven around a chance friendship between two men whose relationships are a bit of a mess, it explores the complexities of caring for ageing parents, loyalty to marriages under strain, and the issues of identity for Indigenous people trying to reconnect with their own culture. Henderson’s profile at Magabala Books explains how he has an intimate understanding of what this means:
"Gus Henderson was born in Sydney in 1950, and had a turbulent upbringing, much of it with his aunt and uncle. He says his schooling was forgettable. He joined the Army in 1967 but did not serve in Vietnam. He was married in 1974 and divorced in 1980. He met his current wife in 1980 and has six children and 17 grandchildren. He completed his PhD in Writing at Edith Cowan University and is currently retired. His people are from around the Flinders Ranges in South Australia. Gus and his siblings grew up without any of his Aboriginal family and it has been a struggle over the years to construct a realistic heritage. As children, they were always told not to tell anybody."
This issue of caring for ageing parents is common amongst my age group. Although they had much else to deal with (the Depression, WW2) our parents mostly did not have this responsibility. Their parents died of heart disease or cancer in what we would now call middle age, in their fifties and sixties, and sometimes even in their forties. But now, with improvements in health care, it is common for people to live into their eighties, nineties, and even beyond. My generation, who mostly had children late, are sometimes called the ‘sandwich generation‘ because they are now often grappling with needy millennials and their ageing parents as well. It’s a phenomenon which is made more complex when relationships between the carer and the ageing parents are not very good. That’s how it is for Matthew, whose father is a racist and a bigot, and who rejects Matthew’s choice of partner because she is Indigenous.
To read the rest of my review please visit https://anzlitlovers.com/2020/07/07/the-wounded-sinner-by-gus-henderson/ ( )