Elizabeth Costello

Description:

Elizabeth Costello is a distinguished and aging Australian novelist whose life is revealed through a series of eight formal addresses. From an award-acceptance speech at a New England liberal arts college to a lecture on evil in Amsterdam and a sexually charged reading by the poet Robert Duncan, the author draws the reader toward its astonishing conclusion. The novel is, on its surface, the story of a woman's life as mother, sister, lover, and writer. Yet it is also a profound and haunting meditation on the nature of storytelling.

subjects: Australianos,  Países extranjeros,  Storytelling,  Australians,  Arte de escribir,  Novela psicológica,  Autoras,  Fiction,  Narración de cuentos,  Women authors,  Australian Women authors,  Foreign countries,  Authorship,  Ficción,  Ethics,  Australia, fiction,  Fiction, general,  Fiction, psychological,  Authors, fiction,  Fiction (fictional works by one author),  Women intellectuals,  Large type books,  Women novelists,  New York Times reviewed,  Psychological fiction

Places: Australia,  Foreign countries

Times: 20th century