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One Easter a young actor, far from home, rents a house from a writer he's never heard of called Kester Berwick, and becomes fascinated by the absent Berwick's rootless, self-invented existence. Gradually, he finds his own life strangely echoing the absent writer's, as Corfu's eccentric expatriate community opens up to him. But is travelling a search or an escape? Is stillness stultifying or liberating? And where do love, sex and friendship fit? CORFU is also a meditation on literary landscapes, from Homer and Sappho to Chekhov and C.P. Cavafy. Dessaix is alive to Corfu's ghosts - Odysseus, washed up naked on the shore to be found by the princess Nausicca; Elisabeth, Empress of Austria, who, hopelessly adrift on dreams of Homer, built a palace called Achilleon; and Berwick himself, the absent centre where all these stories meet.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Corfu
• Author: Robert Dessaix
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352
• EAN: 9780743220392
• ISBN: 0743220390
• ID: 04907205
• Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers
• Weight: 382 g
• Dimensions: 199 × 129 × 28 mm
• Date of publishing: 02. June 2003

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