Abstract
Extinctions takes its time giving up its secrets, and there are some we will never know. One of its most persistent enigmas is what kind of book it is. I wondered, during the first half, whether it was a powerful and perceptive example of the Bildungsroman for seniors: an elderly person (usually male) meets someone new who teaches him to be a better person, to pay attention to the important things in life, to treat those he loves properly, to reconcile himself to his past – in short, to grow up.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 28-28 |
| Number of pages | 1 |
| Journal | Australian Book Review |
| Issue number | 388 |
| Publication status | Published - Jan 2017 |
Keywords
- Josephine Wilson
- fiction
- book review