| Description |
249 pages ; 22 cm |
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regular print |
| Summary |
"In 1860, when they are just eight and ten, Lucy Strange and her brother Thomas are orphaned. Left now in the care of their uncle, the children begin slowly, frighteningly, to find their place in the difficult world. And so begins Lucy's adolescent journey of discovery, one which will take her away from her childhood home in Australia, first to London, then to Bombay and, finally, to her death, at the age of twenty-two. It is a life abbreviated, but not a life diminished. Lucy is a remarkable character, forthright, gifted and exuberant; she touches the lives of all who know her." "Sixty Lights is the chronicle of a modern and independent young woman's life in the Victorian world. Objects evoke memories and hint at the future in a narrative that flows between pleats in time. Through her observation of such objects Lucy's photographic vision is apparent. Her world is a series of still images which one day, printed on albumen paper, she will leave as affecting mementoes of her own extraordinary life."--BOOK JACKET |
| Analysis |
Historical fiction |
| Notes |
Shortlisted for the 2005 Miles Franklin Award |
| Subject |
Women -- India -- Fiction.
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Photographers -- Fiction.
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Young women -- Fiction.
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Westfield Literary Prize Nominations (2005)
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Women photographers -- Fiction.
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| SUBJECT |
India -- Fiction.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008104233
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Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901 -- Fiction.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100250
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Australia -- Fiction.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100473
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Mumbai (India) -- Fiction.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007101978
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| Genre/Form |
Biographical fiction.
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Historical fiction.
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Historical fiction
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History.
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Historical fiction.
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| LC no. |
2005360932 |
| ISBN |
1843431963 paperback |
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1843431955 hardback |
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