The Life and Loves of Lena Gaunt (eBook)

Tracy Farr (Autor)

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2025
352 Seiten
Pushkin Press (Verlag)
978-1-80533-410-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Octogenarian musician Lena Gaunt lives quietly in the Perth suburbs. An early embracer of electronic music, she found fame in Jazz-age Sydney as a virtuoso of the theremin and travelled the world before settling down to a life of daily swims... and a decades-old heroin habit.Now, for the first time in 20 years, she's performing at a festival again. In the audience is documentary filmmaker Mo Patterson. Lena's extraordinary past makes her an intriguing film subject: but is she prepared to reveal the secrets she has guarded for so long?Spanning continents and much of the twentieth century, from colonial Malacca to post-war Europe, this is a story of talent, modernity and belonging, of a woman shaped by the ebb and flow of love and loss, and the constant pull of the sea.

Autor

Tracy Farr is an Australian-born, New Zealand-based writer and former research scientist.Her debut novel The Life and Loves of Lena Gaunt was shortlisted for the 2014 WA Premier's Book Awards and the 2014 Barbara Jefferis Award, and longlisted for the 2014 Miles Franklin Literary Award.Tracy's short fiction has been published in anthologies, literary journals and popular magazines, and broadcast on Radio New Zealand. She won the 2014 Sunday Star-Times Short Story Award for her story Once had me, and other stories have been commended and shortlisted for awards in New Zealand and Australia.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.1.2025
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Historische Romane
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Schlagworte: 1920s New York • artist lifestyle • Australian Literature • Contemporary fiction • debut novel • drug-taking • electronic musical instrument • Guardian interview • Leon Theremin • literary awards nominee • literary debut • literary fiction • Miles Franklin Award • Modern fiction • musical innovation • music and ageing • Music History • Musician protagonist • prestigious awards • Theremin • unique instruments
• ISBN-10: 1-80533-410-7 / 1805334107
• ISBN-13: 978-1-80533-410-1 / 9781805334101