7 1/2 by Christos Tsiolkas

Art is not only about rage and justice and politics.
It is also about pleasure and joy;
it is also about beauty ...
In a time of rage and confusion, I wanted to write about beauty.
CHRISTOS TSIOLKAS

A man arrives at a house on the coast to write a book.
Separated from his lover and family and friends, he finds the
solitude he craves in the pyrotechnic beauty of nature, just as
the world he has shut out is experiencing a cataclysmic shift.
The preoccupations that have galvanised him and his
work fall away, and he becomes lost in memory and beauty.

He also begins to tell a story ...

A retired porn star is made an offer he can't refuse for the sake
of his family and future. So he returns to the world he fled years
before, all too aware of the danger of opening the door
to past temptations and long-buried desires. Can he resist
the oblivion and bliss they promise?

A breathtakingly audacious novel by the acclaimed author
of The Slap and Damascus about finding joy and beauty in
a raging and punitive world, about the refractions of memory
and time and, most subversive of all, about the mystery 
of art and its creation.

Genres: Contemporary Fiction - LGBT - Queer - Writing - Australia - Australian Author
Condition: Fair
Published: 2021 by Allen & Unwin
Pages: 344
ISBN: 9781761065330
Weight: 465g