The dogs : a novel / John Hughes.
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TextPublisher: Perth, W.A. : Upswell, 2021Copyright date: copyright2021Description: xiv, 312 pages ; 22 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780645076349 (paperback)Subject(s): Novel -- English -- Australia -- 21st century -- Texts | Domestic fiction | Estranged families | Family secrets | Terminally ill parents | Estranged families -- Fiction | Australian fiction | Mothers and sons -- Fiction | Families -- Fiction | Australian fiction | Terminally ill parents -- Fiction | Family secrets -- Fiction | Australia -- Fiction | AUS fiction (New South Wales)Genre/Form: [GENRE] -- Adult fiction -- Print | Australian Fiction | Domestic fiction | Australian fiction | Australian Fiction. | Australian fiction | Fiction. | Domestic fiction. | Domestic fiction. DDC classification: A823.4 LOC classification: PR8291.U43 | D65 2021Summary: Is it possible to write about the living without imagining them dead? Michael Shamanov is a man running away from life's responsibilities. His marriage is over, he barely sees his son and he hasn't seen his mother since banishing her to a nursing home two years earlier. A successful screen writer, Michael's encounter with his mother's nurse leads him to discover that the greatest story he's never heard may lie with his dying mother. And perhaps it's her life he's been running away from and not his own. Is the past ever finished? Should we respect another's silence? And if so, is it ever possible to understand and put to rest the strange idea of family that travels through the flesh?
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Is it possible to write about the living without imagining them dead? Michael Shamanov is a man running away from life's responsibilities. His marriage is over, he barely sees his son and he hasn't seen his mother since banishing her to a nursing home two years earlier. A successful screen writer, Michael's encounter with his mother's nurse leads him to discover that the greatest story he's never heard may lie with his dying mother. And perhaps it's her life he's been running away from and not his own. Is the past ever finished? Should we respect another's silence? And if so, is it ever possible to understand and put to rest the strange idea of family that travels through the flesh?
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