{"product_id":"the-golden-age-paperback-3","title":"The Golden Age - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJoan London\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book of the Year: During WWII, a Jewish boy copes with a new homeland, a polio diagnosis--and falling in love for the first time.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrank Gold's family, Hungarian Jews, have fled the perils of World War II for the safety of Australia, but not long after their arrival, thirteen-year-old Frank is diagnosed with polio. He is sent to a sprawling children's hospital called the Golden Age, where he meets Elsa, the most beautiful girl he has ever seen, a girl who radiates pure light.\u003cbr\u003eSoon, Frank and Elsa fall in love, fueling one another's rehabilitation, facing the perils of illness and adolescence hand in hand--and scandalizing the prudish staff of the Golden Age. Their parents, meanwhile, are coping with their own challenges. Elsa's mother must reconcile her hopes and dreams with the reality of her daughter's sickness. Frank's parents are isolated newcomers in a country they do not love and that does not seem to love them back. Frank's mother, a renowned pianist in Hungary, refuses to allow the western deserts of Australia to become her home. But her husband slowly begins to free himself from the past and integrate into a new society.\u003cbr\u003eA winner of multiple literary awards in Australia, \u003cem\u003eThe Golden Age\u003c\/em\u003e is a deeply moving novel about hardship and resilience that \"graciously captures young love in a quiet and beautifully sculpted story that is easily devoured in one sitting\" (\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Poetic intensity suffuses the novel . . . Resisting easy sentimentality,  it] presents polio rehabilitation as a metaphor for postwar recovery.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\"Beautiful\u003c\/i\u003e.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Dallas Morning News\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eThe Golden Age\u003c\/em\u003e is pretty much perfect.\"--\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review)\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoan London\u003c\/b\u003e is a bookseller and author living in Perth. She is the author of two short story collections, \u003ci\u003eSister Ships\u003c\/i\u003e, which won \u003ci\u003eThe Age\u003c\/i\u003e Book of the Year award, and \u003ci\u003eLetter to Constantine\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Steele Rudd Award as well as the West Australian Premier's Award for Fiction, and three novels, \u003ci\u003eGilgamesh\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Good Parents\u003c\/i\u003e, and\u003ci\u003e The Golden Age\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.2 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 16, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47398914752690,"sku":"9781609453329","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/d3b1f9f0479558143fe48028416ba791.webp?v=1778061126","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/the-golden-age-paperback-3","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}