The Labyrinth : a pastoral / Amanda Lohrey.
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TextPublisher: Melbourne, Victoria : Text Publishing, 2020Copyright date: ©2020Description: 246 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781922330109Subject(s): Labyrinths | Art and mental illness | Artists | Interpersonal relations | Mothers and sons | Prisoners -- Family relationships | Social isolation | Trust | Families -- Fiction | Pastoral fiction | Labyrinths -- Fiction | Parent and child -- Fiction | Guilt -- Fiction | Denial (Psychology) -- Fiction | Art -- Psychological aspects -- Fiction | Australian fiction | Prisoners -- Family relationships -- Fiction | Art and mental illness -- Fiction | Social isolation -- Fiction | Interpersonal relations -- Fiction | Trust -- Fiction | Artists -- Fiction | Mothers and sons -- Fiction | Australia | Australia -- Fiction | AustralianGenre/Form: Pastoral fiction | Australian fiction | Psychological fiction. | Domestic fiction. | Fiction. | Psychological fiction. | Domestic fiction. | Australian fiction -- 21st century. | Pastoral fiction. | Australian fiction | Australian fiction DDC classification: A823.4 Awards: Winner of the 2021 Miles Franklin Literary Award.Summary: Erica Marsden’s son, an artist, has been imprisoned for homicidal negligence. In a state of grief, Erica cuts off all ties to family and friends, and retreats to a quiet hamlet on the south-east coast near the prison where he is serving his sentence. There, in a rundown shack, she obsesses over creating a labyrinth by the ocean. To build it—to find a way out of her quandary—Erica will need the help of strangers. And that will require her to trust, and to reckon with her past.
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Erica Marsden’s son, an artist, has been imprisoned for homicidal negligence. In a state of grief, Erica cuts off all ties to family and friends, and retreats to a quiet hamlet on the south-east coast near the prison where he is serving his sentence. There, in a rundown shack, she obsesses over creating a labyrinth by the ocean. To build it—to find a way out of her quandary—Erica will need the help of strangers. And that will require her to trust, and to reckon with her past.
Winner of the 2021 Miles Franklin Literary Award.
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