Dreams of Speaking

Name: Dreams of Speaking
Author: Gail Jones
ISBN: 9781741665222

Gail Jones

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Dreams of Speaking

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#2683 of 8,085 books · #1193 in Fiction

Shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award (2008).

Alice is entranced by the aesthetics of technology and, in every aeroplane flight, every Xerox machine, every neon sign, sees the poetry of modernity. Mr. Sakamoto, a survivor of the atomic bomb, is an expert on Alexander Graham Bell. The pair forge an unlikely friendship as Mr. Sakamoto regales Alice with stories of twentieth-century invention. His own knowledge begins to inform her writing, and these two solitary beings become a mutual support for each other a long way from home. From the boundlessness of space walking to the frustrating constrictions of one person's daily existence, Dreams of Speaking paints with grace and skill the experience of needing to belong despite wanting to be alone.

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