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Elizabeth Costello is a distinguished and aging Australian novelist whose life is revealed through a series of eight formal addresses. From an award-acceptance speech at a New England liberal arts college to a lecture on evil in Amsterdam and a sexually charged reading by the poet Robert Duncan, the author draws the reader toward its astonishing conclusion. The novel is, on its surface, the story of a woman's life as mother, sister, lover, and writer. Yet it is also a profound and haunting meditation on the nature of storytelling.
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Australianos, Países extranjeros, Storytelling, Australians, Arte de escribir, Novela psicológica, Autoras, Fiction, Narración de cuentos, Women authors, Australian Women authors, Foreign countries, Authorship, Ficción, Ethics, Australia, fiction, Fiction, general, Fiction, psychological, Authors, fiction, Fiction (fictional works by one author), Women intellectuals, Large type books, Women novelists, New York Times reviewedPlaces
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Elizabeth Costello: eight lessons
2004, W.F. Howes
in English
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1841976644 9781841976648
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Elizabeth Costello (Spanish)
August 2004, Mondadori (IT)
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9879397363 9789879397367
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"THERE lS FIRST of all the problem of the opening, namely, how to get us from where we are, which is, as yet, nowhere, to the far bank."
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