The Custodians

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: As New
Jacket Condition: As New
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Publisher Place: Sydney
Publisher Year: 1997
Edition: First Edition

Description: 495 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in As new condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Against the scarred landscape of contemporary Australia, eight childhood friends seek their individual destinies: Alex, ambitious but melancholy; Cleve, snatched by the state from his parents; Danny, his twin brother, who has spent more of his life in custody than free; Elspeth, the heiress seeking enlightenment; Jane, passionately committed to her art; Josie, dedicated to doing good; Wendy, in search of fun; and Ziggy, the brilliant actor. They are the custodians, but of what, and for whom From the 1950s to the 1980s, from the South Australian outback to Manhattans art world and the London stage, from tropical Queensland to Maos China, "The Custodians" has an extraordinary reach. It is at once a startling and often comical novel about friendship, love, and betrayal, and an astounding story of struggle and history--a history which these eight characters must both embrace and transcend if they are to find reconciliation with the land to which they belong, but which does not belong to them. "The Custodians" is a triumph of storytelling, a sharp and moving epic from one of Australias most acclaimed writers.

ISBN: 9780732908928