The passage of love
By: Alex Miller
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Crows Nest, N.S.W
Language: eng
Number of pages: 585
ISBN-13: 9781760297343
Subjects: Married people; Fiction; Australians; Authors; Marital conflict; Reminiscing in old age
Description: Sitting in a New York park, an old man holds a book and tries to accept that his contribution to the future is over. Instead, he remembers a youthful yearning for open horizons, for Australia, a yearning he now knows inspired his life as a writer. Instinctively he picks up his pen and starts at the beginning...At twenty-one years, Robert Crofts leaves his broken dreams in Far North Queensland, finally stopping in Melbourne almost destitute. It's there he begins to understand how books and writing might be the saving of him. They will be how he leaves his mark on the world. He also begins to understand how many obstacles there will be to thwart his ambition. When Robert is introduced to Lena Soren, beautiful, rich and educated, his life takes a very different path. But in the intimacy of their connection lies an unknowability that both torments and tantalises as Robert and Lena long for something that neither can provide for the other.