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The Restorer

The Restorer

The Restorer
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The Restorer

de Sala, Michael

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1925355020
ISBN 13
9781925355024
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Text Publishing Company. Used - Very Good. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

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El Mar 4 2017, CloggieDownunder dijo:
"Some nights sleep wouldn't come to her at all. A wakefulness bloomed in her, so intense it was as if something made of needles was trying to claw its way out. She'd watch the dawn spread over the street"

The Restorer is the second novel by Dutch-born Australian author, Michael Sala. When Maryanne arrives with her children at the house in East Newcastle that her estranged husband has bought, it is with hope that they can restore their relationship to its earlier, more stable state. The house is a dump, but Roy is confident he will have it fully liveable or saleable within a year.

Not everyone shares his enthusiasm for the move. Fourteen-year-old Freya is resentful of being torn away from Sydney, her friends and her nan; eight-year-old Daniel is still acting too vague and dreamy, too sheltered by Maryanne, for Roy's liking. As the months go by and Roy's behaviour regresses, Maryanne's certainty about her decision to give it another chance begins to erode.

Sala tells his story using two main narrators: Maryanne provides the perspective of a woman trying to balance a relationship with the man she loves and the imperative to protect her children from harm; Freya gives the point of view of an adolescent growing up in a family filled with hidden tensions, with a background of which she is more aware than anyone realises; next-door neighbour Richard's short but prescient narrative bookends these two.

Sala's beautiful descriptive prose effortlessly captures his setting: Newcastle locals will easily recognise their city. His mention of significant events anchors his tale firmly in the year 1989. His descriptions of weather are especially evocative: "…the weather had turned on its head the way it did on the coast, everything – the warmth, the calm, the clarity – thrown away, rain coming over at unpredictable moments, on again, off again, pummelling its fists against the windows and the roof, then fragments of blue stumbling across the sky, a sudden burst of intolerable sun, before the clouds locked back into place again and it was all humidity, and waiting, just waiting, for something to break"

His characters are multi-faceted and realistically flawed; their dialogue is natural and their behaviour quite believable, although Maryanne gives Freya more freedom than many mothers would a fourteen-year-old. Sala touches on many topical issues, as well as some that are timeless: feelings of inadequacy, lack of trust, domestic violence, teens hormones and upheaval, suicide, drugs, alcohol, mental cruelty, and anger management all feature. This is a powerful, moving read.

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Librería
Better World Books US (US)
Inventario del vendedor #
40553331-6
Título
The Restorer
Autor
Sala, Michael
Estado del libro
Used - Very Good
Cantidad disponible
1
Encuadernación
Tapa blanda
ISBN 10
1925355020
ISBN 13
9781925355024
Editorial
Text Publishing Company
Primera fecha de publicación de esta edición
Paperbac

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