The Service of Clouds
It is 1907 and the Blue Mountains of New South Wales are filled with the grand dreams of elsewhere. Eureka Jones, a young pharmacist's assistant with historical eyes, falls in love with Harry Kitchings, a man who takes pictures of clouds and succumbs to the "madness of photography". Set in a vast...
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It is 1907 and the Blue Mountains of New South Wales are filled with the grand dreams of elsewhere. Eureka Jones, a young pharmacist's assistant with historical eyes, falls in love with Harry Kitchings, a man who takes pictures of clouds and succumbs to the "madness of photography". Set in a vast landscape haunted by sadness and the stories of romance which drift across it, the novel explores passion, illness and the secret desires men and women bring to the mountains.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780330360272 (0330360272)
ASIN: 0330360272
Publish date: 1997-10
Publisher: Picador
Edition language: English