Ebook {Epub PDF} Autumn Laing by Alex Miller

Autumn Laing seduces Pat Donlon with her pearly thighs and her lust for life and art. In doing so she not only compromises the trusting love she has with her husband, Arthur, she also steals the future from Pat's young and beautiful wife, Edith, and their unborn child. Fifty-three years later, cantankerous, engaging, unrestrainable year-old Autumn is shocked to find within herself a /5(3).  · Novelist Alex Miller is one of Australia’s most successful, with two Miles Franklin awards under his belt for Journey to the Stone Country and The Ancestor Game. His latest book, Autumn Laing, began as a work loosely modelled on the life of artist Sidney Estimated Reading Time: 7 mins.  · Autumn Laing is an unflinchingly intimate portrait of a woman and her time - she is unforgettable. Reviews Michael McGirr in "The Age": "At one level, this is a book about visual art, a passion that has sustained a good deal of Miller's fiction.

Combined Reviews: Autumn Laing. by Alex Miller. Autumn Laing has long outlived the legendary circle of artists she cultivated in the s. Now 'old and skeleton gaunt', she reflects on her tumultuous relationship with the abundantly talented Pat Donlon and the effect it had on her husband, on Pat's wife and the body of work which launched Pat. Autumn Laing, Alex Miller (AllenUnwin, ) During the two weeks I was reading Autumn Laing I found that even while the sun was still high in the sky I couldn't wait until bedtime, when I could read the next chapter. Some nights, as I closed the book, I couldn't get to sleep. I was buzzing. Autumn Laing by Alex Miller. Posted on Aug | 3 Comments. They are all dead and I am old and skeleton-gaunt. This is where it began fifty-three years ago. Autumn Laing is coming to the end of her days. Frail and irritable about it. Losing her independence, she is reliant on Stony her gardener and Adeli her biographer to keep her out.

Enter Autumn Laing, the eponymous heroine of Alex Miller’s new novel, based on Reed. It’s and she is 85 years old, living alone at Old Farm amid the ghosts of the past. She’s in a rage fuelled by self-disgust at her frailties, a pesky biographer, an uncomprehending doctor and an impertinent nurse. Combined Reviews: Autumn Laing. by Alex Miller. Autumn Laing has long outlived the legendary circle of artists she cultivated in the s. Now 'old and skeleton gaunt', she reflects on her tumultuous relationship with the abundantly talented Pat Donlon and the effect it had on her husband, on Pat's wife and the body of work which launched Pat. Autumn Laing is an unflinchingly intimate portrait of a woman and her time - she is unforgettable. Read an extract (PDF) Read a short piece by Alex on writing Autumn Laing. Read an interview with Alex about Autumn Laing at the Readings blog. Read an interview with Alex at the Dreams of Cowboys blog. Buy Autumn Laing from www.doorway.ru Back.