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The Alphabet of Light and Dark

de Danielle Wood

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After her grandfather's death, Essie returns to Bruny island and to the lighthouse whereher great great grandfather kept watch for nearly 40 years. She begins to write the stories of her ancestors but finds that local sculptor Pete Shelverton is a part of that history that she cannot escape. Winner of the Australian/Vogel Literary award 02.… (més)
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What is it about Tasmania that makes its literature so exclusively maudlin? From the melancholy Sound of One Hand Clapping to the disturbing revelations of The Fatal Shore, books set in and around Tasmania often seemed coloured with sadness. Is it the harsh terrain, the relative isolation or perhaps the climate that makes every book to come from the apple isle read like a dramatic tragedy? Whatever the reasons, Danielle Wood's first novel, and winner of the Vogel Literary Award, The Alphabet of Light and Dark follows this trend. It is a story about loneliness and solitude, of isolation and separation, of one person's desperate search for her elusive past and another's futile attempts to leave his own past behind.

Melding personal, family and colonial history, Wood's evocative and lyrical prose explores the past and place, searching and belonging, love, loss and grief. The Alphabet of Light and Dark is more than an historical novel; it's a novel about history.

A tiny coin found inside a Cloudy Bay oyster, a postcard of a white-haired child leaning against a beached dinghy and a coconut peeled and carved once upon a time on the Batavian coast. These trinkets, found in a sea chest, and the fragmented memories of her grandfather's tall tales are all Essie Lewis has left of her family history.

After her grandfather's death, Essie returns to Bruny Island, Tasmania and to the lighthouse where her great-great-grandfather kept watch for nearly 40 years. Beneath the lighthouse, she begins to write the stories of her ancestors. But the island is also home to Pete Shelverton, a sculptor who hunts feral cats to make his own peace with the past. And as Essie writes, she finds that Pete is a part of the history she can never escape.

Absorbing, subtle, impressive writing. ( )
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After her grandfather's death, Essie returns to Bruny island and to the lighthouse whereher great great grandfather kept watch for nearly 40 years. She begins to write the stories of her ancestors but finds that local sculptor Pete Shelverton is a part of that history that she cannot escape. Winner of the Australian/Vogel Literary award 02.

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