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The Gorgeous Inertia of the Earth
ADRIAN DUNCAN
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Summary
AN IRISH INDEPENDENT AND IRISH TIMES BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2025
In this moving new novel, award-winning Irish writer Adrian Duncan explores love and grief while finding their resonance in works of art
During winter season in a secluded Alpine city, John Molloy, an Irish restorative sculptor, meets Bernadette, an enigmatic Italian sociologist. As John falls in love, a distressing moment from his youth rises into view, the disastrous fallout of which has reverberated unchecked through his life.Years later, a letter from home arrives, asking him to pray for the speedy death of an ailing friend. Over a day-long odyssey through the ancient streets and churches of Bologna, John isforced to confront his present, his past and the bedrock of his psyche. A delicately crafted novel of two halves, a decade apart, The Gorgeous Inertia of the Earth is a masterful excavation of human desires, inhibitions, and the patterns of habit to which we unwittingly fall prey.
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$27.95
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Category:
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Author:
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ADRIAN DUNCAN
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Title:
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The Gorgeous Inertia of the Earth
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Release date:
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12 September 2025
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Editor:
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SERPENT'S TAIL
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Subject:
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LITTERATURE DIVERSES ORIGINES
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ISBN:
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9781805221944 (1805221949)
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Renaud-Bray Reference:
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21734705
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Item nb:
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4482087
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The Gorgeous Inertia of the Earth
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DUNCAN, ADRIAN
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SERPENT'S TAIL
2025
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