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The Pacific room / Michael Fitzgerald.

The Pacific room / Michael Fitzgerald.
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TF1255611 F FIT
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Record Number 18748
ISBN 9780995359550
0995359555
Location F FIT
Author Fitzgerald, Michael E. J., (author).
Title The Pacific room / Michael Fitzgerald.
Published [S.l.] : TRANSIT LOUNGE, 2017.
Melbourne, [Victoria] Transit Lounge Publishing, 2017.
©2017
Collation 240 pages ; 24 cm.
Content types text
Carrier type volume
General Note Collection: LGBTIQA+ Adult
Summary Note 'Do I look strange?' These were his last recorded words. That night Sosimo kissed his hands and laid them across his breast, knitting his fingers together like flowers. The next morning the household watched his coffin, held aloft by a dozen brown hands, disappear into an ocean of leaves. Every now and then, at a turn of the mountain, it would emerge from the trees, bobbing higher and higher, floating free. This remarkable debut novel tells of the last days of Tusitala, 'the teller of tales', as Robert Louis Stevenson became known in Samoa where he chose to die. In 1892 Girolamo Nerli travels from Sydney by steamer to Apia, with the intention of capturing something of Jekyll and Hyde in his portrait of the famous author. Nerli's presence sets in train a disturbing sequence of events. More than a century later, art historian Lewis Wakefield comes to Samoa to research the painting of Tusitala's portrait by the long-forgotten Italian artist. On hiatus from his bipolar medication, Lewis is freed to confront the powerful reality of all the desires and demons that R. L. Stevenson couldn't control. Lewis's personal journey is shadowed by the story of the lovable Teuila, a so-called fa'afafine ('in the manner of a woman'), and the spirit of Stevenson's servant boy, Sosimo.
Personal Name Stevenson, Robert Louis 1850-1894
Nerli, Girolamo Pieri,1860-1926
Subject Manic-depressive persons -- Fiction
Australian fiction
Biographical fiction
Authors, Scottish -- 19th century -- Fiction
Artists Fiction.
Art historians -- Fiction
Art historians
Artists
Manic-depressive illness -- Fiction
Manic-depressive illness
Geographic Name Samoa -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
Samoa -- Fiction
Samoa
SUBJECT Australian
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