The golden age
By: Joan London
Publisher: Random House Australia
Published: 2015
Place of publication: North Sydney, N.S.W
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780857989000; 9780857981547; 9781741666441
Subjects: Poliomyelitis; Fiction; Patients; Convalescent Hospitals
Description: It is 1954 and thirteen-year-old Frank Gold, refugee from wartime Hungary, is learning to walk again after contracting polio in Australia. At the Golden Age Children's Polio Convalescent Home in Perth, he sees Elsa, a fellow patient, and they form a forbidden, passionate bond. The Golden Age becomes the little world that reflects the larger one, where everything occurs- love and desire, music, death, and poetry. It is a place where children must learn they're alone, even within their families.
Notes: Previously published: 2014.