Seven and a Half

Christos Tsiolkas

Seven and a Half
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Allen & Unwin
Country
Australia
Published
2 November 2021
Pages
360
ISBN
9781761065330

Seven and a Half

Christos Tsiolkas

Art is not only about rage and justice and politics. It is also about pleasure and joy; it is also about beauty...
In a time of rage and confusion, I wanted to write about beauty.
-Christos Tsiolkas

Winner of the 2021 Melbourne Prize for Literature

A man arrives at a house on the coast to write a book. Separated from his lover and family and friends, he finds the solitude he craves in the pyrotechnic beauty of nature, just as the world he has shut out is experiencing a cataclysmic shift. The preoccupations that have galvanised him and his work fall away, and he becomes lost in memory and beauty ...

He also begins to tell us a story ...

A retired porn star is made an offer he can't refuse for the sake of his family and future. So he returns to the world he fled years before, all too aware of the danger of opening the door to past temptations and long-buried desires. Can he resist the oblivion and bliss they promise?

A breathtakingly audacious novel by the acclaimed author of The Slap and Damascus about finding joy and beauty in a raging and punitive world, about the refractions of memory and time and, most subversive of all, about the mystery of art and its creation.

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