Charmian Clift
Author
Language
English
Description
A POWERFUL NOVEL OF ELEMENTAL LOVE AND FURY ON A DOOMED, ENCHANTED ISLAND WORLD….In the cradle of civilization, rocked by the waters of the blue Aegean, lies the tiny, barren island of Kalymnos. It is cloaked in antiquity and rich with the vibrant life of a proud and passionate people who have stubbornly endured the ravages of man and nature for three thousand years. And yet Kalymnos is dying, its means of survival crushed beneath the juggernaut...
Author
Publisher
University of New South Wales Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
The never-before-published novel by Charmian Clift.‘ In those days the end of the morning was always marked by the quarry whistle blowing the noon knock-off.Since everybody was out of bed very early, morning then was a long time, or even, if you came to think about it, a round time -- symmetrical anyway, and contained under a thin, radiant, dome shaped cover ... ' During the years of the Great Depression, Cressida Morley and her eccentric family...