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Mr O Winds Back the Clock

Author: I.J. Baker  

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A fastidious editor has been thrown into crisis by the death of a friend from his bohemian twenties. In this often funny story about pleasure and choices, he traces the bargains former playmates have made with ambition and reconsiders his own.

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A fastidious editor has been thrown into crisis by the death of a friend from his bohemian twenties. In this often funny story about pleasure and choices, he traces the bargains former playmates have made with ambition and reconsiders his own.

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It is crunch time for the fastidious copy editor Seamus Cullen, who decades earlier had lived very differently. Failing at work and required to take leave, he finds solace in memories of his freewheeling twenties, and pursues them back to a present that's subtly altered.


His crisis has followed the death of a friend, the masterful doctor who set him up with his belated first love - and whom he had mocked for his resistance to getting loose in warm company. This sudden departure has unsettled him more than he can easily admit.


Seamus bolsters his recollections with contemporary sketches he had made of his share-household life, some of whose characters remain in his orbit. In this refreshing, often funny story about pleasure and choices, he traces the proceeds of their bargains with ambition and reconsiders his own.

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I've never read a book like it. It's brave and Intelligent. Immaculate Prose. - Bruce L Russell

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About the Author

I J Baker laboured at a timber yard, a food factory, a dairy farm and several vineyards before getting his first editorial job at the age of 24. He has worked on magazines, newspapers and news websites in three Australian capitals, holds a PhD in ethics, has two daughters, and lives in Melbourne, where he was born.

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Product Details

Publisher
Intricate Books
Published
21st October 2024
Pages
344
ISBN
9781763537910

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