Leaning Towards Infinity
Author(s): Sue Woolfe
This edition is Out of Print as at March 2010. Sue Woolfe's runaway best seller in Australia breaks long-held taboos about sex and mothering. Leaning Towards Infinity is an achingly honest, at times hilarious, vision of a heretofore unspoken world of mothers, daughters, genius, failed genius, sex, academic politics, and breasts. Through three generations of a family and over several continents, Woolfe explores and prods at the force of brilliance in some women, and the actions of genius, but equally she casts a searchlight around the dark world of having to be a mother, that paradox where infinite love must withstand the daily onslaught of sleeplessness, anger, and selfishness.
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Winner of the 1996 Christina Stead Prize for fiction
Winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize for best book, South East Asia and Pacific
Short-listed for almost every major Australian award, and the US Tip Tree Award.
“For the Australian book of the century I would nominate….Sue Woolfe’s Leaning Towards Infinity for its luminous melding of style and subject matter.” --Jack Dann, Australian Style 1999
“What a glorious, nourishing, tumultuous novel.”--Fay Weldon
“Most readers would find themselves wishing that Leaning Towards Infinity would never end.” --MS Magazine
“Remarkable…provocative, moving, and intelligent” --Times Literary Supplement
“Woolfe’s name can sit besides Marquez’s with scarcely a blush.” --Daily Telegraph
“The deepest novel of ideas for years” --Baltimore Sun
“Captivating from the very first line” --Boston Globe
“Astonishing – a yearning for mother love so fierce it virtually wrenches itself from the page” --She Magazine
“It changed the way I think about mathematics and its place in the world.” --Phil Kutzo, Professor of Mathematics, University of Iowa, USA.
General Fields
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- : Random House Australia
- : Vintage (Australia)
- : 0.293
- : 30 April 1999
- : 198mm X 131mm X 26mm
- : Australia
- : books
Special Fields
- : Sue Woolfe
- : Paperback
