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Joyful, by Robert Hillman
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'Ravishing, compelling prose...It's a strangely funny, compelling, and sad novel, the beauty of which is found in searching for what remains once beauty has disappeared.'—Bookslut
"A story about redemption and negotiating a place of peace inside despair."—Saturday Paper
"A pleasure to read."—Weekend Australian
Leon is a man free of sexual desire. Nonetheless he adores his wife, and when she becomes ill and dies he is completely shattered. Then he discovers her correspondence with an unknown lover, and his suffering veers towards madness.
In this extraordinary comedy of grief, Robert Hillman evokes his characters, from the merely unconventional to the frankly deranged, with kindness, grace, and wit. Joyful is a gift that will leave the reader deeply moved and filled with delight.
Joyful, by Robert Hillman- Amazon Sales Rank: #8754843 in Books
- Brand: Hillman, Robert
- Published on: 2015-07-14
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.10" h x 1.10" w x 6.00" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 352 pages
Review 'Ravishing, compelling prose...A strangely funny, compelling, and sad novel, the beauty of which is found in searching for what remains once beauty has disappeared.'—Bookslut
About the Author Robert Hillman is the author of a number of critically acclaimed books, including his 2004 memoir The Boy in the Green Suit, which won the National Biography Award, and Gurrumul, His Life and Music. He lives in Warburton in Victoria's Yarra Valley.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Didn't Reach Potential By 125Pages *I received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.Original review posted on www.125pages.wordpress.comLeon Joyce is a complicated non-complicated man. He does not feel traditional desire in the sexual manner but feels immensely towards objects of beauty. One of these objects is Tess Wachowicz; a women who fits his aesthetic ideal. He marries her knowing she has dalliances but is mostly content that they are meaningless and she only loves him. Upon her death he hears rumors of her loving another and the search for the truth takes him on an unexpected journey.I really wanted to like this book, the premise was intriguing and I wanted to be drawn into this world. Unfortunately this was not the case. It took three times to get past the first twenty pages, and then it was a forced read to the end. None of the characters drew me in, unfortunately they were almost universal portrayed as pretty horrible. I kept hoping for some redeeming qualities or someone I could latch on to, but alas that never happened. The story was very full with description, way too much description. Sentence after sentence describing items and things made the read draining. One sentence alone had thirty-eight items described. I was half way thru and felt I had already read a War and Peace type tome. If you cut out the extra ¼ of the book that was used to describe things and gave Leon some quality that you could root for this could be an excellent read. Joyful had the potential to be an incredible read but sadly fell short for me.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. An intense and angst -ridden exploration of the effects of ... By Denise Cameron An intense and angst -ridden exploration of the effects of grief so consuming, so overwhelming, that the matters of subsistence are sublimated to the relentless waves of emotion.Most scenes are set in rural Victoria and deal with characters so flawed they fit together as do pieces in a well used jigsaw. As the narrative unfolds the characters intersect in such a way as to appear logical,almost inevitable to the reader. There is humor and pathos in the character development and exposition, along with a poetical and elegant prose. A joyful read.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. A moving and very enjoyable read By Cloggie Downunder Joyful is the sixth novel by Australian author, Robert Hillman. Joyful is a property at Yackandandah in country Victoria that was inherited by Leon Joyce; it was built by his great grandfather, used by his great aunt as a base for a Socialist Christian community, and offered by his wife to her friends as a temporary retreat, but Leon has never been there. Leon is a strange little man: a somewhat overweight rare-book seller who is obsessed with female beauty, but in a completely asexual way. Tess Wachowicz is a beautiful musician and radio presenter who is decidedly promiscuous. But when Leon dresses Tess in a Ralph Lauren halter-neck from his collection, their fate is sealed. Their unlikely marriage seems to work: Leon worships her beauty, finds he can even manage to be affectionate, and Tess takes her lust elsewhere. When Tess dies of cancer, Leon is devastated. Desperate to keep his connection to her, he pores over anything associated with Tess and stumbles on evidence of a lover, a man for whom she evicted her Kurdish friends from Joyful. Professor Emmanuel Delli and his wife, Daanya, a paediatrician, are also grieving as both their son and daughter have died violent deaths. In Yackandandah, the Professor’s dysfunctional reactions, now escalating into madness, have alienated the community. Also living in Yackandandah is Tess’s Polish lover, Daniel, part of a strange little threesome including his lover, Emily and her husband Gareth. When Leon heads to Joyful, their paths are eventually bound to cross. Hillman gives the reader a diverse cast of support characters: a swearing priest; a delightful pair of indigenous squatters; a determined shop manager; an exasperating psychotherapist; a sympathetic researcher, a pragmatic policeman, an infatuated great aunt, a progressive father. This book is filled with beautiful descriptive prose: “The paddocks along the highway were fawn and wilted yellow after a summer of ferocious heat. Bony outcrops of granite glittered on the hillsides, the fabric of earth worn away like the elbows of an ancient garment.” and “The foliage of the trees became a theatre of silhouettes, growing blacker as the night deepened. The moon formed a sharper and sharper arc halfway up the sky until it seemed too distinct to be merely natural. As the hours passed the stars thickened. By midnight they looked as crafted as the moon.” and “It was as if the message of his aversion had reached her after a technical delay in which it circled the earth blindly twice or fifty times, and was only now having its impact.” are just a few examples. Hillman endows Leon with the sort of madness that is only possible for the independently wealthy, but also gives him plenty of words of wisdom: “…victims are often ambitious. They write themselves into whatever drama they can find.” and “The passions of the timid were as punishing as those of the extroverted.” and “It was true of many people that the best of them only ever comes to life in the imagination of another.” This novel touches on mental disorders, on grief and loss, and on the plight of Kurds; it features heartbreak, jealousy, distress, shame and obsession; Utopias, Islam and the work of Wordsworth also play a part. The subject matter could make for heavy going, but there is humour and there is hope to give balance. This decidedly original novel will stay with the reader long after the last page is turned. A moving and very enjoyable read.
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