- Miles Franklin Literary Award 2017 · Winner
Extinctions
Extinctions
Josephine Wilson (born 1966)
English editions
Written in EnglishExtinctions
Serpent's Tail · United Kingdom · 7 March 2019 · Paperback
Extinctions
UWA Publishing · Australia · 2016 · 286 pages
Extinctions
Serpent's Tail · United Kingdom · 5 July 2018
Extinctions
Tin House · United States · November 2018 · Paperback · 358 pages
Extinctions
UWA Publishing · Australia · 2020 · Paperback · 280 pages
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Professor Frederick Lothian, sixty-nine, a retired engineer devoted to modernist architecture, has moved into a retirement complex outside Melbourne and is resolved to hate it, boxed in by possessions he has collected for decades. His wife Martha has died. His adopted daughter Caroline, who is putting together an exhibition on vanished species, keeps away, and his son Callum is beyond his reach for other reasons. When a string of mishaps forces him into the company of Jan, the observant woman next door, Frederick begins to confront the secrets and lies that broke his family, and to see a chance of making something good for those he loves.
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- Novel
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- Family (assigned by AI)
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- Australia
- First published
- 2016
- Author's age
- 50 when first published
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9781742588988 (UWA Publishing, Australia)
9781788160766 (Serpent's Tail, United Kingdom)
9781947793088 (Tin House, United States)
9781788160773 (Serpent's Tail, United Kingdom)
9781760801526 (UWA Publishing, Australia)
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