Art & architecture · 1792
Elizabeth Costello
€955
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- First published
- 1757
- This copy printed
- 1792
- Language
- English
- Binding
- Paper boards
- Condition
- Fine — Close to as issued; only the lightest signs of age.
- Pages
- 233
About this work
Elizabeth Costello is a distinguished and aging Australian novelist whose life is revealed through a series of eight formal addresses. From an award-acceptance speech at a New England liberal arts college to a lecture on evil in Amsterdam and a sexually charged reading by the poet Robert Duncan, the author draws the reader toward its astonishing conclusion. The novel is, on its surface, the story of a woman's life as mother, sister, lover, and writer. Yet it is also a profound and haunting meditation on the nature of storytelling.
