Description
Novel in which a 67-year-old crippled writer has an affair with the delinquent grandson of her childhood admirer. Letters to an ex-lover in the form of a novel, dreams, philosophical musings on old age and death, and physical yearnings are interwoven against a backdrop of a wild, evocative landscape. The highly acclaimed author of plays, poetry and an autobiography, 'Wild Card' has one previously published novel, 'Bobbin Up' (1959).
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Publication
Ringwood, Vic., Australia : New York, N.Y., USA : McPhee Gribble ; Viking Penguin, 1993.
Pages
300
Awards
The Age Book of the Year Award (Shortlist — Fiction — 1993)