Machines for feeling / Mireille Juchau.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Juchau, Mireille, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Machinery--Fiction.

Machinery.

Friendship--Fiction.

Friendship.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (254 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

St Lucia, Queensland : University of Queensland Press, 2016.

Summary:

The brilliant first novel of Mireille Juchau, author of the Miles Franklin-longlisted The World Without Us Rien and Mark leave St Mary's Home for Children and start a tentative new life together.While Mark dreams of machines to repair their fractured world, Rien writes stories to help her recover the missing events of her past.

Contents:

Cover; Author biography and praise; Title page; Dedication; Epigraph; Part I; The Dog Before the World; Other Fires; Bird; Scratchwork; Cassie; Delilah's Hairdressing Emporium; Dark Therapy; Falling; Night Breathing; Mortality; The Dream Converter; Griefwork; Surgery; The Problem with Diving; Part II; What He Loves; Everything and Nothing; The House-Machine; Beegirl; The Embellishment of an Intolerable Life; Peas in a Pod; Birdland; The Pose of a Child; Doctor Who?; The Drunken Angel; Red; Part III; The Flowers of Evening; An Ushering Light; How Babies Are Made; The Bone Collectors

Family PicturesCome!; Gone; Appetite; Recipe for Breath; After Words; Acknowledgements; Imprint page

Notes:

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ISBN:

0-7022-5868-7

OCLC:

950004664