An Imaginative Experience

Author: Mary Wesley

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Price : 27.00 NZD
ISBN : 9780099499091
Publisher : vinteb
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Weight (g) : 0.35
Publication date : 01 January 2007
Dimensions : 19.90 cmmm X 12.90 cmmm X 1.60 cmmm
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Author : Mary Wesley
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Language : en
Dewey classification : 813
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Pages : 240
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A traveller on an InterCity train returning to London smells the burn of brakes as it hisses to a stop in the middle of the countryside. He sees a white-faced woman leap from the train and race to the aid of a sheep stranded on its back, unable to rise, in a field. Righting it, she turns, and he sees her face which is full of tragedy. Considering tragedies of his own, he does not intrude, but the image lodges in his mind: a strange but familiar despair, unable, despite itself, to ignore the desperation it recognises in others. From these seeds, Mary Wesley draws out a plot of an unforgettable impact: of loss, of release, of a necessarily comic acceptance of fate, of love - the 'imaginative experience'.

Rich in character and wit, and powerfully moving, this is a novel of the heart's pain and deliverance.

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