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"Photography has without doubt made her a seer; she is a woman of the future, someone leaning into time, beyond others, precarious, unafraid to fall..." This is the story of Lucy Strange, a photographer, while the art is in its infancy, in the 1870s, who exists in an extraordinarily heightened state of seeing and imagining. Her tale is told in sixty illuminated parts - using candlelight, flames, lightning, gas-lamps, mirrors, magic lanterns and, most mysteriously, lit faces and bodies. In a contracted, almost modernist form, Sixty Lights tracks Lucy's life from her childhood in Australia, to her stormy adolescence in England and India and finally to her death in London at the age of twenty-three. It is a life abbreviated, but not a life diminished: she is a remarkable character, forthright, gifted, passionate and canny. Sixty Lights plays powerfully with Victorian tropes and texts - orphans, inheritances, Great Expectations - setting them against the technological revolution in seeing that is inspired by photography. Written with astute imagistic precision, the story is deeply layered, fluctuating between past, present and future. This is an impressive UK debut from a prize-winning
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Gail Jones teaches in the department of English, Communications and Cultural Studies at the University of Western Australia. She is the author of short stories and one previous novel which have been published in Australia and for which she has won numerous awards.
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"A very special novel indeed" -- Tom Boncza-Tomaszewski * Independent on Sunday * "Jones has a flair for luminous and accurate prose... A passionate book" * Guardian * "Gem-like, lyrical portrait of a girl growing-up" -- Boyd Tonkin * Independent * "Reads like a luminous album of photographs marked by an almost unbearable sadness" * Weekend Australian * "An immensely well crafted novel" * Sunday Independent *
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- PublisherThe Harvill Press
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 1843431955
- ISBN 13 9781843431954
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages249
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Good. 249 pages. Cover wornIn 1860, when they are just eight and te n, Lucy Strange and her brother Thomas are orphaned. Left now in the care of their uncle, the children begin slowly, frighteningly , to find their place in the difficult world. And so begins Lucy' s adolescent journey of discovery, one which will take her away f rom her childhood home in Australia, first to London, then to Bom bay and, finally, to her death, at the age of twenty-two. It is a life abbreviated, but not a life diminished. Lucy is a remarkabl e character, forthright, gifted and exuberant; she touches the li ves of all who know her. Sixty Lights is the chronicle of a moder n and independent young woman's life in the Victorian world. Obje cts evoke memories and hint at the future in a narrative that flo ws between pleats in time. Through her observation of such object s Lucy's photographic vision is apparent. Her world is a series o f still images which one day, printed on albumen paper, she will leave as affecting mementoes of her own extraordinary life.--BOOK JACKET. Seller Inventory # 1369af
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