| A Misted Mirror Contributor(s): Jones, Keith (Author), Jones, Gillian (Author) |
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ISBN: 9881993237 ISBN-13: 9789881993236 Publisher: Proverse Hong Kong OUR PRICE: $20.90 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Biographical |
| Dewey: 823.92 |
| Physical Information: 0.38" H x 5.51" W x 8.5" (0.47 lbs) 178 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Gillian Jones wrote A MISTED MIRROR as a response to her late husband, Keith Jones's illness with Parkinson's Disease and to his poetry. Structured around the poetry, the novel imagines and explores the life together of a fictional couple, Sarah and David, with flashbacks to before they met, and chronicles David's later decline with Parkinson's Disease and dementia. Early readers have found it a powerful and compelling story, of a young man sowing wild oats in Africa, confronting his demons in the hothouse of a London arts community, and finding pleasure and satisfaction in a second marriage, family and career. The results of his illness come as a heart-rending contrast but mitigated by a generous late-flowering of his poetry. |