The Idea Of Perfection
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: true first aus ed
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
In a sun-bleached outback town where nothing ever seems to change, two awkward, self-conscious outsiders are thrown together by the most unlikely of circumstances — the proposed demolition of a crooked wooden bridge. The Idea of Perfection is a warmly comic and deeply humane love story by one of Australia's most celebrated literary voices, Kate Grenville, chronicling the tentative romance between Harley Savage, a no-nonsense engineer sent to tear down the old bridge, and Douglas Cheeseman, a diffident and socially clumsy museum curator dispatched to preserve the town's heritage. Set against the dusty, sun-drenched landscape of rural New South Wales, the novel presents two deeply imperfect people slowly, painfully, and hilariously finding their way toward each other. Grenville writes with a rare combination of wit, tenderness, and psychological precision, illuminating the ways in which human beings construct and cling to their ideas of perfection — in themselves, in others, and in the world around them. Winner of the prestigious Orange Prize for Fiction in 2001, the novel stands as a landmark of contemporary Australian literature, celebrated for its sharp observational humour and its quietly radical insistence that love, in all its stumbling imperfection, is worth pursuing. Readers who cherish character-driven fiction with genuine emotional depth will find this novel impossible to put down — and even harder to forget.
Author: Kate Grenville
Format: Paperback
Published: 1999, Picador (Pan Macmillan Australia)
Genre: Modern fiction
Edition: true first aus ed
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
In a sun-bleached outback town where nothing ever seems to change, two awkward, self-conscious outsiders are thrown together by the most unlikely of circumstances — the proposed demolition of a crooked wooden bridge. The Idea of Perfection is a warmly comic and deeply humane love story by one of Australia's most celebrated literary voices, Kate Grenville, chronicling the tentative romance between Harley Savage, a no-nonsense engineer sent to tear down the old bridge, and Douglas Cheeseman, a diffident and socially clumsy museum curator dispatched to preserve the town's heritage. Set against the dusty, sun-drenched landscape of rural New South Wales, the novel presents two deeply imperfect people slowly, painfully, and hilariously finding their way toward each other. Grenville writes with a rare combination of wit, tenderness, and psychological precision, illuminating the ways in which human beings construct and cling to their ideas of perfection — in themselves, in others, and in the world around them. Winner of the prestigious Orange Prize for Fiction in 2001, the novel stands as a landmark of contemporary Australian literature, celebrated for its sharp observational humour and its quietly radical insistence that love, in all its stumbling imperfection, is worth pursuing. Readers who cherish character-driven fiction with genuine emotional depth will find this novel impossible to put down — and even harder to forget.