Woman Of The Inner Sea (SIGNED)
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed
In the vast, sunburned heart of Australia, a woman flees the wreckage of her privileged Sydney life and disappears into the mythic outback — and what she discovers there will challenge everything she thought she knew about guilt, grief, and survival. Woman of the Inner Sea chronicles the extraordinary journey of Kate Gaffney-Kozinski, a woman of wealth and comfort who, shattered by an unspeakable personal tragedy, abandons her world and reinvents herself among the railway workers, drifters, and eccentrics of the remote Australian interior. Thomas Keneally constructs her flight as both a literal journey across a brutal landscape and a profound spiritual reckoning, suffusing the narrative with the mythological weight of the continent itself. Keneally, best known internationally for Schindler's Ark, brings the same moral seriousness and compassionate intelligence to this deeply Australian novel, wielding his prose with a quiet, devastating precision that strips away sentimentality to reveal raw human truth. The novel argues that redemption is not found in the places we expect, but in the most unlikely of human connections forged in the most unforgiving of terrains. Dark, tender, and quietly luminous, it leaves the reader asking a haunting question: can a person truly outrun who they are, or does the self always find a way home?
Author: Thomas Keneally
Format: Hardback
Published: 1992, Hodder & Stoughton
Genre: Modern fiction
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed
In the vast, sunburned heart of Australia, a woman flees the wreckage of her privileged Sydney life and disappears into the mythic outback — and what she discovers there will challenge everything she thought she knew about guilt, grief, and survival. Woman of the Inner Sea chronicles the extraordinary journey of Kate Gaffney-Kozinski, a woman of wealth and comfort who, shattered by an unspeakable personal tragedy, abandons her world and reinvents herself among the railway workers, drifters, and eccentrics of the remote Australian interior. Thomas Keneally constructs her flight as both a literal journey across a brutal landscape and a profound spiritual reckoning, suffusing the narrative with the mythological weight of the continent itself. Keneally, best known internationally for Schindler's Ark, brings the same moral seriousness and compassionate intelligence to this deeply Australian novel, wielding his prose with a quiet, devastating precision that strips away sentimentality to reveal raw human truth. The novel argues that redemption is not found in the places we expect, but in the most unlikely of human connections forged in the most unforgiving of terrains. Dark, tender, and quietly luminous, it leaves the reader asking a haunting question: can a person truly outrun who they are, or does the self always find a way home?