num_pages: 401
description: Harley Savage is a large, rawboned, plain person with a ragged haircut and a white t-shirt coming unstitched along the shoulder. Douglas Cheeseman is a big-eared man who avoids his own reflection, and has bored his wife into leaving him. They are not the usual suspects for a burgeoning romance.
language: English
title: The Idea of Perfection
titlecomplete: The Idea of Perfection
genres: Fiction, Australia, Book Club, Romance, Literature, Novels, Contemporary, Adult Fiction, Literary Fiction, Audiobook
ratings_count: 3460
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Orange Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Nita B. Kibble Literary Award
publisher: Picador