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By the author of Booker-shortlisted I'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 bohemian 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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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Curious Earth
• Author: Gerard Woodward
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304
• EAN: 9780099490654
• ISBN: 009949065X
• ID: 04018007
• Publisher: Vintage Publishing
• Weight: 200 g
• Dimensions: 196 × 130 × 20 mm
• Date of publishing: 06. March 2008

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