Darke : a novel
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- ISBN: 9781786892287 (hardcover)
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Physical Description:
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299 pages ; 24 cm - Publisher: Edinburgh, Scotland : Canongate Books Ltd, 2017.
- Copyright: ©2017.
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Subject: | Social isolation -- Fiction Old age -- Conduct of life -- Fiction Reminiscing in old age -- Fiction Death -- Fiction Families -- Fiction |
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Summary:
Dr James Darke has expelled himself from the world. He writes compulsively in his 'coming of old age' journal; he eats little, drinks and smokes a lot. Meditating on what he has lost - the loves of his life, both dead and alive - he tries to console himself with the wisdom of the great thinkers and poets, yet finds nothing but disappointment. But cracks of light appear in his carefully managed darkness; he begins to emerge from his self-imposed exile, drawn by the tender, bruised filaments of love for his daughter and grandson.