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Title Darke.
Author Gekoski, R. A., author.
Publication Info. [Place of publication not identified] : Canongate Books, [2017]
©2017
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Description 1 online resource (321 pages)
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Summary SHORTLISTED FOR THE AUTHORS' CLUB BEST FIRST NOVEL AWARDDr 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; he tries to console himself with the wisdom of the great thinkers and poets, yet finds nothing but disappointment. But cracks of light start to appear in his carefully managed darkness - the tender, bruised filaments of love for his daughter and grandson. With scalding prose, ruthless intelligence and an unforgettably vivid protagonist, Darke confronts some of humanity's greatest and most uncomfortable questions about how we choose to live, and to die.
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Subject Death -- Fiction.
Families -- Fiction.
Old age -- Conduct of life -- Fiction.
Reminiscing in old age -- Fiction.
Social isolation -- Fiction.
Families -- Fiction.
FICTION / General.
Genre Electronic books.
Domestic fiction.
Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Added Author Freading.
ISBN 9781782119388 (epub)
Standard No. 9781782119388