{"product_id":"9781740511452","title":"Frank Moorhouse - Forty-Seventeen","description":"\u003cp\u003eWritten by Frank Moorhouse. Themes include Fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat could he tell her now, now that he was forty and she was no longer 17?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e He is a failed writer turned diplomat, an anarchist learning the value of discipline. He moves in a world which takes him from the Australian wilderness to the conference rooms of Vienna and Geneva; from the whore-house to warzone he feels the pull of the genetic spiral of his ancestry. At the sharp axis of his mid-life he scans the memorabilia of his feelings in the hope of giving answers.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In his first full-length novel Moorhouse presents a roving, dissatisfied man entering middle age in a house-of-mirrors portrait- fragmentary and multifaceted. Sean, a hard-drinking, hard-living Australian, has just turned 40; the other half of the title refers to a precocious schoolgirl who is one of his many liaisons. The most important of the other women who drift into and out of his life include his ex-wife Robyn, now unflinching in the face of cancer; Belle, Sean's fellow sexual adventurer; and Edith Campbell Berry, an aging iconoclast whom Sean encounters in Vienna and Israel.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eForty-Seventeen\u003c\/i\u003e is told with characteristic Moorhouse style - candid, wryly insightful and morbidly comic - and, in this resonant and acclaimed book achieves a new virtuosity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAll books at Vastela are pre-owned. Condition varies from good to near-new. No book is sold in unacceptable condition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vastela Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59169072447862,"sku":null,"price":6.9,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0707\/7144\/1981\/files\/9781740511452.jpg?v=1793289755","url":"https:\/\/www.vastelabooks.com\/products\/9781740511452","provider":"Vastela Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}