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Conditions of Faith

Conditions of Faith

by Alex Miller
Paperback
Publication Date: 01/07/2011

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Winner of the 2001 Christina Stead Prize for Fiction

From the Author of Miles Franklin Literary Award and Commonwealth Writers' Prize Winner

With university behind her, Emily Stanton finds herself on the threshold of life. Introduced to a Scottish engineer, the exoticism of his life in Paris beckons, and she leaves her family home in 1920s Melbourne to become his wife. But far from providing answers, her conventional marriage awakens in her an ardent desire to find a reason for living beyond that of simply wife and mother. This desire leads her to flirt with risk, passion and unorthodox friendships, and carries her to Tunisia on a journey of self-questioning and intellectual reawakening.

Conditions of Faith is both a provocative romance and an elegant meditation on a timeless dilemma.
Impetuous yet entirely sympathetic, Emily Stanton, like Henry James' Isabel Archer, is in search of a reason for living in a society where motherhood is deemed reason enough. This mesmerising and thought-provoking story of dreams, obsessions and destiny will hold you in thrall.
ISBN:
9781742377346
9781742377346
Category:
Contemporary fiction
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
01-07-2011
Publisher:
ALLEN & UNWIN
Country of origin:
Australia
Pages:
420
Dimensions (mm):
198x129x30mm
Weight:
0.4kg
Alex Miller

All of Alex Miller's novels have been critically acclaimed and have won or been shortlisted in all of the major Australian literary awards.

He is twice winner of Australia's premier literary prize, the Miles Franklin Literary Award, and is an overall winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for The Ancestor Game.

In 2015, The Simplest Words, Alex Miller's first collection of stories, memoir, commentary and poetry, was published to great acclaim.

Alex Miller is published internationally and his works have been widely translated

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