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9781764339308: The Mankeeper
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ISBN 10: 1764339304 ISBN 13: 9781764339308
Editorial: Clear Mind Press, 2025

Sinopsis

At seventy-nine, Joy learns a new word: mankeeper. The word fits and chafes at once. In a coastal town of bowls greens, church pews and Norfolk pines, she tends to Art in the realm where care is mostly invisible: reading the weather of his face, staging days with lists and small calibrations, keeping pills lined up next to plates and hope tucked under a fridge magnet. As seasons turn, a fall on the back step, a neighbour's kindness, a son's visits and the camaraderie of a men's shed rearrange the household's balance of rage and dependence.

The Mankeeper is a close-up portrait of late-life partnership, of how love, habit and stubborn autonomy jostle in kitchen and shed, on the breakwater and under the eave. It is about the choreography of ageing, the politics of chores and tone, and the audacity of claiming an hour to write. Joy is list-maker outside and author inside, learning what is hers to carry and what she can set down.

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Suzanne Visser began her writing career in the Netherlands, where her novels were published by Atlas, Leopold and Bert Bakker; De Vismoorden (The Fish Murders) was translated into French, German and Spanish. She has lived in Central Australia since 2000 and now writes in English. Her books include The Fish Murders, Cash!, Life Force, The Great Kitschification and Hundred and Fifty Four Sonnets.

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Editorial
Clear Mind Press
Año de publicación
2025
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1764339304
ISBN 13 
9781764339308
Encuadernación
Tapa blanda
Número de páginas
224
Contacto del fabricante
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