The Golden Age

More by Joan London

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  Gilgamesh: A Novel (Unabridged)

  Joan London Edith and Frances, living with their mother on a tiny farm in the south-east of Australia, are visited by their cousin Leopold and his Armenian friend Aram. The two young men are taking the long way home after working on an archaeological dig in Iraq. It is 1937. The modern world, they say, is waiting to erupt. Among the tales they tell is the story of Gilgamesh, the legendary king of Uruk, in ancient Mesopotamia. Gilgamesh's great journey of mourning after the death of his friend Enkidu, and his search for the secret of eternal life, is to resonate through all of their lives. In 1939, Edith and her young child set off on an impossible journey of their own, to find themselves trapped by the outbreak of war. The story of this journey is the story of encounters and escapes, of friendship and love, of loss and acceptance.

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  The Good Parents: A Novel (Unabridged)

  Joan London A two-time winner of Australia's prestigious The Age Book of the Year Award, Joan London's debut novel, Gilgamesh, was published to rapturous acclaim both in her native Australia and in the United States. Now, London has delivered The Good Parents, a tender and compelling tale of mother love and the harrowing moment when a daughter spreads her wings and vanishes from her parents' orbit.
  
  Maya de Jong is an 18-year-old country girl who moves to Melbourne and begins an affair with her new boss. When Maya's parents, Toni and Jacob, arrive for a visit, Maya is gone - no one knows where. Maya, for reasons of her own, leaves haunting clues in late-night calls to her brother at home, carefully avoiding detection by the two people who love her most. Ultimately, to find her daughter, Toni will have to revisit a part of her past that she thought she had shut off forever - the closest she ever came to being a lost girl herself.
  
  The Good Parents is at once utterly contemporary and a story as old as humanity itself: a stunning portrait of familial love and how far we can drift apart in the moments between the words we speak.

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  Gilgamesh (Unabridged)

  Joan London A story of encounters and escapes, of friendship and love, of loss and acceptance and finally of returning home. Edith and Frances, living with their mother on a tiny farm in the south-east of Australia, are visited by their cousin Leopold and his Armenian friend Aram. The two young men are taking the long way home after working on an archaeological dig in Iraq. It is 1937. The modern world they say, is waiting to erupt. Among the tales they tell is the story of Gilgamesh, the legendary king of Uruk, in ancient Mesopotamia. Gilgamesh's great journey of mourning after the death of his friend Enkidu, and his search for the secret of eternal life, is to resonate through all of their lives. In 1939 Edith and her young child set off on an impossible journey of their own, to find themselves trapped by the outbreak of war. The story of this journey is the story of encounters and escapes, of friendship and love, of loss and acceptance.

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  Sunburnt Country (Unabridged)

  Sally Morgan, A.B. Facey, Elizabeth Jolley, Elizabeth Backhouse, Michal Bosworth, Emma Ciccotosto, Ron Davidson, Faye Davis, Connie Ellement, Kenneth Gasmier, T.A.G. Hungerford, Gail Jones, Vasso Kalamaras, John Lane, Simone Lazaroo, Joan London, Pat Malcolm, Bill Marks, John A. McKenzie, Jack McPhee, Connie Miller, Kim Scott, Joyce Shiner, Imelda P. Smith & Justina Williams Stories of Australian life. Sunburnt Country is an outstanding selection of autobiographical stories and short fiction about Australia and Australians. From childhood, through adolescence, work and marriage, to old age, these stories provide a lively, at times moving, sometimes funny, glimpse into many aspects of life in Australia.

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  Sunburnt Country (Unabridged)

  Sally Morgan, A.B. Facey, Elizabeth Jolley, Elizabeth Backhouse, Michal Bosworth, Emma Ciccotosto, Ron Davidson, Faye Davis, Connie Ellement, Kenneth Gasmier, T.A.G. Hungerford, Gail Jones, Vasso Kalamaras, John Lane, Simone Lazaroo, Joan London, Pat Malcolm, Bill Marks, John A. McKenzie, Jack McPhee, Connie Miller, Kim Scott, Joyce Shiner, Imelda P. Smith & Justina Williams Stories of Australian life. Sunburnt Country is an outstanding selection of autobiographical stories and short fiction about Australia and Australians. From childhood, through adolescence, work and marriage, to old age, these stories provide a lively, at times moving, sometimes funny, glimpse into many aspects of life in Australia.