The Last Days Of Ava Langdon

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: University Of Queensland Press
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2016
Edition: First Edition

Description: 209 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Its been twenty years since Ava Langdon published her much-lauded novel The Apple Pickers, but today could very well be the day her genius is finally recognised again. Armed with a freshly completed manuscript, a yellow cravat and a machete, Ava strides out into the world in the hope of being published and so the adventure begins. Despite being dismissed as an eccentric or worse by the world around her, and battling poverty and age, Avas internal world remains vivid; her purpose, clear.Author Mark OFlynn first learned about legendary Blue Mountains writer and recluse Eve Langley when he stumbled across her abandoned hut outside the small town of Leura. Though he moved on to other projects, Langleys voice stayed with him: ‘Why did she change her name (by deed poll) to Oscar Wilde Why the romantic preoccupation with her past So little is known of her final days. OFlynns fascination with her life eventually led to the creation of the irrepressible Ava Langdon.Rich in wordplay and colourful anecdote, The Last Days of Ava Langdon is an intimate, witty and soulful conjuring of a once-great artist in her final days, which will leave the reader questioning what passion would sustain you if everything was lost

ISBN: 9780702254154