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Alex Miller

Conditions of Faith

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Winner of the 2001 Christina Stead Prize for Fiction
From the Author of Miles Franklin Literary Award and Commonwealth Writers' Prize Winner
With university behind her, Emily Stanton finds herself on the threshold of life. Introduced to a Scottish engineer, the exoticism of his life in Paris beckons, and she leaves her family home in 1920s Melbourne to become his wife. But far from providing answers, her conventional marriage awakens in her an ardent desire to find a reason for living beyond that of simply wife and mother. This desire leads her to flirt with risk, passion and unorthodox friendships, and carries her to Tunisia on a journey of self-questioning and intellectual reawakening.
Conditions of Faith is both a provocative romance and an elegant meditation on a timeless dilemma.
Impetuous yet entirely sympathetic, Emily Stanton, like Henry James' Isabel Archer, is in search of a reason for living in a society where motherhood is deemed reason enough. This mesmerising and thought-provoking story of dreams, obsessions and destiny will hold you in thrall.
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448 páginas impressas
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Bookwire
Publicação original
2017
Ano da publicação
2016
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    It is a ready fault in all young people impatient for the truth to judge the past by the standards of the present—the only standards you possess, after all, and so you mistakenly believe them to be timeless and universal.
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    ‘It is an irreversible condition, you know, motherhood.
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    ‘It is my conviction that Père Delattre has proved himself a man of considerable determination and resourcefulness in this somewhat difficult country of yours.’
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