Heart cancer
By: Bill Leak
Publisher: ABC Books for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Sydney, N.S.W
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
Subjects: Man-woman relationships; Fiction
Description: Frank Thornton has a problem. A jazz afficionado, recreational drug user, man-about-town and serial womaniser who likes a drink or two, nothing has swayed him from his determined hedonism until now. Frank's not unused to dawn awakenings on park benches, beatings by angry husbands, and days lost in an alcoholic haze, but one beating too many and the appearance in his life of the lovely novelist Xin Xin, has made him wonder whether a change of direction is in order.