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This Devastating Fever

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Sometimes you need to go deep into the past, to make sense of the present.   Alice had not expected to spend the first twenty years of the twenty-first century writing about Leonard Woolf. When she stood on Morell Bridge watching fireworks explode from the rooftops of Melbourne at the start of a new millennium, she had only two thoughts. One was: the fireworks are better in Sydney. The other was: was the world‿s technology about to crash down around her? The world‿s technology did not crash. But there were worse disasters to come: Environmental collapse. The return of fascism. Wars. A sexual reckoning. A plague. Uncertain of what to do she picks up an unfinished project and finds herself trapped with the ghosts of writers past. What began as a novel about a member of the Bloomsbury set, colonial administrator, publisher and husband of one the most famous English writers of the twentieth century becomes something else altogether. Complex, heartfelt, darkly funny and deeply moving, this is Sophie Cunningham‿s most important book to date ‿ a dazzlingly original novel about what it‿s like to live through a time that feels like the end of days, and how we can find comfort and answers in the past.‿

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  • Language:
  • English
  • ISBN:
  • 9781761151491
  • Binding:
  • Paperback
  • Pages:
  • 320
  • Published:
  • June 7, 2023
  • Dimensions:
  • 198x129x36 mm.
  • Weight:
  • 300 g.
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Expected delivery: June 27, 2024

Description of This Devastating Fever

Sometimes you need to go deep into the past, to make sense of the present.   Alice had not expected to spend the first twenty years of the twenty-first century writing about Leonard Woolf. When she stood on Morell Bridge watching fireworks explode from the rooftops of Melbourne at the start of a new millennium, she had only two thoughts. One was: the fireworks are better in Sydney. The other was: was the world‿s technology about to crash down around her? The world‿s technology did not crash. But there were worse disasters to come: Environmental collapse. The return of fascism. Wars. A sexual reckoning. A plague. Uncertain of what to do she picks up an unfinished project and finds herself trapped with the ghosts of writers past. What began as a novel about a member of the Bloomsbury set, colonial administrator, publisher and husband of one the most famous English writers of the twentieth century becomes something else altogether. Complex, heartfelt, darkly funny and deeply moving, this is Sophie Cunningham‿s most important book to date ‿ a dazzlingly original novel about what it‿s like to live through a time that feels like the end of days, and how we can find comfort and answers in the past.‿

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