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REVIEW The Golden Age READ & DOWNLOAD Ê The Golden Age Joan London ↠ 9 READ & DOWNLOAD This is a story of resilience the irrepressible enduring nature of love and the fragility of life From one of Australia's most loved novelists He felt like a pirate landing on an island of little maimed animals A great wave had swept them up and dumped them here All of them like him stranded wanting to go home It is 1954 and thi If someone were to have told me that The Golden Age was written in 1954 the time of its setting I would have believed them The book has the tone of a classic with the potential of rediscovery upon future readingsThere are no bells and whistles here The writing is spare but powerful carefully calibrated to reveal but not lead the reader I often separate books into warm those that touch the heart and cool those that touch the brain On that continuum I d place this book at cool ish not at all manipulative despite its themeAnd what IS the theme In a word it s displacement The Golden Age refers to an actual polio children s convalescent home in Australia that existed between 1949 1959 Frank Gold no coincidence I think that his name is similar to the home is sent there just as he stands on the brink of maturity he is 13 years old There he meets Elsa also on the cusp of adulthood and according to the book jacket they fall in loveStill the love story is not truly the focal point of the book Frank considers this Every country had its rules He had to learn them How long would he be allowed to stay here Was this the country where he could finally feel at home Frank and his family have already been displaced they are Hungarian Jews who were forced to leave their homeland during the war and in Australia view themselves as strangers in a strange land Polio is a metaphor for this displacement and forces Frank once again to learn to adjust in a home with its own history and rulesFrank s illness and recovery are aligned in ways with that of his parents Meyer and Ida Ida was an esteemed pianist in Hungary and has not performed for a while one might say she is dealing with her own form of paralysis Meyer who is optimistic must come to the realization that his new city is its own place It is not like anywhere else The entire family moves towards acceptance of a new realityThere are many secondary characters here as well and none of them receive short shrift This is a gentle book and it reuires careful reading to fully glean all its nuances Consider it a parlor study of the progression from paralysis to movement White Rose and the Black pirate landing on an island of little maimed animals A great wave had swept them up and dumped them here All of them like him stranded wanting to go home It is 1954 and thi If someone were to have told me that The Golden Age was written in 1954 the time of its setting I would have believed them The book has the tone of a classic with the BIRDMEN 1 potential of rediscovery upon future readingsThere are no bells and whistles here The writing is spare but Maggie Life at the Elms Maggie's World Book 1 powerful carefully calibrated to reveal but not lead the reader I often separate books into warm those that touch the heart and cool those that touch the brain On that continuum I d Love by Design place this book at cool ish not at all manipulative despite its themeAnd what IS the theme In a word it s displacement The Golden Age refers to an actual Secret Classrooms A Memoir of the Cold War polio children s convalescent home in Australia that existed between 1949 1959 Frank Gold no coincidence I think that his name is similar to the home is sent there just as he stands on the brink of maturity he is 13 years old There he meets Elsa also on the cusp of adulthood and according to the book jacket they fall in loveStill the love story is not truly the focal Beautiful Torment Beautiful #1 point of the book Frank considers this Every country had its rules He had to learn them How long would he be allowed to stay here Was this the country where he could finally feel at home Frank and his family have already been displaced they are Hungarian Jews who were forced to leave their homeland during the war and in Australia view themselves as strangers in a strange land Polio is a metaphor for this displacement and forces Frank once again to learn to adjust in a home with its own history and rulesFrank s illness and recovery are aligned in ways with that of his Endless Chain parents Meyer and Ida Ida was an esteemed Pretty Tough pianist in Hungary and has not The Mist performed for a while one might say she is dealing with her own form of Venus 13 paralysis Meyer who is optimistic must come to the realization that his new city is its own Boss Man place It is not like anywhere else The entire family moves towards acceptance of a new realityThere are many secondary characters here as well and none of them receive short shrift This is a gentle book and it reuires careful reading to fully glean all its nuances 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REVIEW The Golden Age READ & DOWNLOAD Ê The Golden Age Joan London ↠ 9 READ & DOWNLOAD Rteen year old Frank Gold refugee from wartime Hungary is learning to walk again after contracting polio in Australia At the Golden Age Children's Polio Convalescent Hospital in Perth he sees Elsa a fellow patient and they form a forbidden passionate bond The Golden Age becomes the little world that reflects the larger one where What struck me most about this book is that although it is dealing with children struck down by the terrible polio epidemic of the 1950s it is a uiet and joyous story For Frank Gold recently arrived in Australia from post WWII Hungary and on the cusp of adolescence it should be a horrific time in his life But Frank is resilient and resourceful and relishes the sudden independence from his parents and the cares of the world The Golden Age the children s convalescent hospital of the title as described by London was indeed a sanctuary for the children where they could be treated as normal children and be shielded from the stares and derision of the world until they were strong enough to go back to itIt is while in hospital during the acute phase of his polio that Frank discovers the beauty of poetry from an older boy Sullivan imprisoned in an iron lung and from then on he constantly writes down lines that come to him When he is later moved to the the Golden Age he sees a girl around his own age Elsa and falls in love Her light golden brown hair was pulled straight back into a single plait Little gold wisps escaped and caught the low beams of sun around her forehead Her skin was pale She looked like a drawing done with a fine lead pencil He noted the straightness of her nose her delicate grave mouth the clear curve of her jawline the length of her neck from the bottom of her earlobe to the hollow of her throatThere was a shadow between her eye and cheekbone An aristocratElsa is from a different background to Frank A solid middle class Australian existence in a big house near the sea of tennis lessons and endless golden days riding her bike They form a strong bond and although we never get a strong sense of her personality she becomes Frank s muse and soul mateThe prose is simple and beautiful The themes of displacement and nostalgia from childhood from war torn Europe are woven strongly through those of love and relationships Through Frank s year long recuperation his parents finally start to accept their new life in Perth and although it will never be the same as Budapest before the war there is hope for a good future together45 Boss Man polio in Australia At the Golden Age Children's Polio Convalescent Hospital in Perth he sees Elsa a fellow Growing Rails Applications in Practice patient and they form a forbidden خاطرات سياسي ۶۶ ۱۳۶۵ passionate bond The Golden Age becomes the little world that reflects the larger one where What struck me most about this book is that although it is dealing with children struck down by the terrible Zaraza polio epidemic of the 1950s it is a uiet and joyous story For Frank Gold recently arrived in Australia from D Live Vol 4 post WWII Hungary and on the cusp of adolescence it should be a horrific time in his life But Frank is resilient and resourceful and relishes the sudden independence from his Green Lanes and Kettle Cranes parents and the cares of the world The Golden Age the children s convalescent hospital of the title as described by London was indeed a sanctuary for the children where they could be treated as normal children and be shielded from the stares and derision of the world until they were strong enough to go back to itIt is while in hospital during the acute John Quincy Adams and American Global Empire phase of his Radical Technologies polio that Frank discovers the beauty of Learning to See Version 13 poetry from an older boy Sullivan imprisoned in an iron lung and from then on he constantly writes down lines that come to him When he is later moved to the the Golden Age he sees a girl around his own age Elsa and falls in love Her light golden brown hair was Simply Scandalous House of Pleasure #9 pulled straight back into a single Hard as Steel Hard Ink #45; 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CHARACTERS Ó E-book, or Kindle E-pub ↠ Joan LondonREVIEW The Golden Age READ & DOWNLOAD Ê The Golden Age Joan London ↠ 9 READ & DOWNLOAD Everything occurs love and desire music death and poetry Where children must learn that they are alone even within their families Written in Joan London's customary clear eyed prose The Golden Age evokes a time past and a yearning for deep connection It is a rare and precious gem of a book from one of Australia's finest novelis I seldom comment on why I rate a book probably because I m basically lazy but I feel I must comment on this beautifully written story by the Western Australian writer Joan London It is set in a tragic time when the blight of a polio epidemic struck But it is not a tragic story rather one of love and hope love in its several forms and hope for the future varying with each character The locale I know intimately the era is my own and I relate to the polio epidemic personally because a life long friend who has since died was struck down at that time But I think the story holds up and is worthy of five stars regardless of my personal bias Surrender To The Millionaire Harleuin Presents poetry Where children must learn that they are alone even within their families Written in Joan London's customary clear eyed White Rose and the Black prose The Golden Age evokes a time BIRDMEN 1 past and a yearning for deep connection It is a rare and Maggie Life at the Elms Maggie's World Book 1 precious gem of a book from one of Australia's finest novelis I seldom comment on why I rate a book Love by Design probably because I m basically lazy but I feel I must comment on this beautifully written story by the Western Australian writer Joan London It is set in a tragic time when the blight of a Secret Classrooms A Memoir of the Cold War polio epidemic struck But it is not a tragic story rather one of love and hope love in its several forms and hope for the future varying with each character The locale I know intimately the era is my own and I relate to the Beautiful Torment Beautiful #1 polio epidemic Endless Chain personally because a life long friend who has since died was struck down at that time But I think the story holds up and is worthy of five stars regardless of my Pretty Tough personal bias