Idea of Perfection, The. (Text Classics)

AUSTRALIANA AS NEW

 Literature.  Kate Grenville’s Orange Prize-winning novel The Idea of Perfection is the story of the small town of Karakarook, and of Douglas Cheeseman and Harvey Savage – two people who seem the least likely in the world to fall in love. Unlike Felicity Porcelline, a woman dangerously haunted by the idea of perfection, they come to understand that what looks like weakness can be the best kind of strength. Harley Savage is a large, rawboned, plain person with a ragged haircut and a white t-shirt coming unstitched along the shoulder. Douglas Cheeseman is a big-eared man who avoids his own reflection, and has bored his wife into leaving him. They are not the usual suspects for a burgeoning romance.

xiii, 432 pages ; 20 cm #051122

Armfield, Neil, 1955- writer of introduction

Perfection — Fiction.  |  Country life — Australia — Fiction.  |  Romance fiction.