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Joyful

✍ Scribed by Hillman, Robert

Book ID: 109054659
Publisher: The Text Publishing Company
Year: 2014
Tongue: English
Weight: 358 KB
Category: Fiction

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✦ Synopsis

Joyful is a remarkable, razor-sharp comedy of grief from one of Australia's most dynamic writers.

Leon Joyce's years with Tess Wachowicz began with an Emanuel Ungaro taffeta ballgown, part of his collection of women's attire kept in three wardrobes at the South Yarra house. The collection took in Givenchy, Jacques Fath, Schiaparelli, Madae Gres, Helmut Lang, Claire McCardell, Mainbocher, Miyake, Yves Saint Laurent, Chanel, Dior, Travis Banton, Pucci and Antony Price.

Leon is a man unburdened by sexual desire. Nonetheless he adores his wife - only partly for the way she wears his exquisite collection of haute couture - and when she becomes ill and dies he is completely shattered.

Then he discovers her correspondence with an unknown lover, and his suffering veers towards madness.

Leon hunkers down at his neglected country property, Joyful, with the entire local supply of scotch whisky and a bizarre plan to retrieve (posthumously)...

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