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Giramondo Publishing

The Bone House - Beverley Farmer

Beverley Farmer is the winner of the 2009 Patrick White Award for Literature The three long essays that make up The Bone House are an extended meditation on the life of the body and the life of the mind, each based on a single theme and woven out of the same few elemental symbols of earth, and water, fire and blood, light and darkness. What does art know that we do not?Alongside the urge to grasp the world, to abstract and delve, is the urge to make our visions known, somehow to fix the moment in time in its fullness of meaning. In the essays, this hoard of moments takes the form of a mosaic, composed of myth, poetry and fable, of relics of the past, of explorations and illuminations and surface impressions.

Beverley Farmer is the author of three collections of short stories and two novels, The Seal Woman and The House in the Ligh**t, which was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award. The Bone House has been ten years in the making.

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