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Sixty Lights

Gail Jones

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#6770 of 8,085 books · #930 in Historical Fiction

Longlisted for the Booker Prize (2004).

Sixty Lights is the captivating chronicle of Lucy Strange, an independent girl growing up in the Victorian world. From her childhood in Australia through to her adolescence in England and Bombay and finally to London, Lucy is fascinated by light and by the new photographic technology. Her perception of the world is passionate and moving, revealed in a series of frozen images captured in the camera of her mind's eye showing her feelings about love, life and loss. In this confident, finely woven and intricate novel Jones has created an unforgettable character in Lucy; visionary, gifted and exuberant, she touches the lives of all who know her.

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Publisher
Harvill
ISBN-13
9781448104901
Topics
Coming of agePhotography and perceptionLove and loss

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