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A Curious Earth 9780099490654 Paperback

By the author of Booker-shortlistedI'll Go To Bed At Noon.Aldous Jones is in a bad way: his dilapidated house is empty of family but full...

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By the author of Booker-shortlistedI’ll Go To Bed At Noon.Aldous Jones is in a bad way: his dilapidated house is empty of family but full of hoarded odds and ends that remind him of his dead wife and son. A preference for whisky over washing rapidly leads to his hospitalisation but it also reawakens his desire for sex and adventure and his lifelong passion for art.What follows is a heartbreakingly funny quest that will lead him first to the National Gallery, where he is bewitched by a Rembrandt painting, and then to Ostend, to stay with his boemian son and a ridiculous Dutch sexologist and then through a series of somewhat misguided relationships with sympathetic women to an ending of devatating poignancy…

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