Books Books
Category: Ebooks, Fiction, Literary Fiction
Number of pages: 313
ISBN: 9781781722497
Publication date: June 26, 2015
Price: £9.99
Category: Ebooks, Fiction, Literary Fiction
Number of pages: 313
ISBN: 9781781722510
Publication date: June 26, 2015
Price: £7.99
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Richard Parry is a painter who cannot paint, a writer who doesn’t write.
His obsession is Lulu, that ‘orphan off the street’, his aboriginal ‘green child’.
But on returning from Australia to his hometown he finds it has become notorious for the suicides of young people.
As Parry tries to connect past and present he is haunted by dreams of Australia and of his youth.
Yet is Parry all he seems? Isn’t he frankly, ‘a bit creepy’? How trustworthy is memory? And what has happened to the vivacious Lulu?
A meditation on age and opportunity by prizewinning poet, essayist and novelist Robert Minhinnick. Limestone Man is this writer’s second novel, after 2007’s Ondaatje-nominated Sea Holly.
Robert Minhinnick
Robert Minhinnick is one of Wales’ (some would say Britain’s) most eminent writers. He is a multi-prizewinning poet, essayist and novelist; his most recent poetry collection was shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize in 2017 and won Wales Book of the Year, which he has won three times. Two of his novels have been shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize. He edited Poetry Wales for ten years. Minhinnick is also an environmentalist and founder of Friends of the Earth Cymru and Sustainable Wales who has written extensively on the environment.
His debut novel Sea Holly (2007) was shortlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize in 2008. Robert’s second novel Limestone Man (2015) is a gripping story of a man who tries to connect past and present yet is haunted by dreams of Australia and his youth. His novel Nia was longlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize 2019
He edited Gorwelion: Shared Horizons (2021) a book of essays about climate change. His latest non-fiction book Delirium was published by Seren (2021).
