Martin Leo Kenny

Johnston's Hope; an Australian story (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

At six, despite being isolated on a farm in Southwest Australia, Johnston believed he was a boy soprano meant for great things. With inspiration from the Bronte sisters and spurred on by literary "pearls of wisdom" introduced around the kitchen table by his dad, he conscripts little sister Hope into his phantasmagorical world of Gondal, to mother creative exploits which he records his diary for posterity. Hope's cello prowess eclipses Johnston's self-proclaimed favored child prodigy status, causing him to undertake ludicrous tests for family attention. When his father dies, Johnston's made-up world ends abruptly and along with it, an age of innocence. He hides himself in Asia, sidestepping responsibility for his fantasies which have impacted the people he holds dearest - in ways he couldn't have imagined as a child. But he cannot make sense of a universe that does him no favors and drives him towards depression. As he searches for an alternative moral compass to the one instilled in him by his erudite father and his religious mother, he becomes obsessed by the suicide of the Japanese icon, Yukio Mishima. He resolves to challenge Mishima's view of the world but he fails to confront his guilt about a brother-sister relationship that has verged on mutual obsession.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Martin Leo Kenny
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798201575557
• Artikelnr.: 64996088

Autorenporträt

During my 30 years with the United Nations, I was responsible for a bounty of publications which I fear may have driven people to boredom - if not despair. Born in Perth, after 6 years teaching literature, I married a Swedish diplomat, and we raised our three children globally in keeping with our postings. Unsettled by semi-retirement, I have recently written articles for sailing magazines including Atlantic crossings on which I have taken aboard fictional characters from my novel: Johnston's Hope; an Australian story - a manuscript of 84,000 words which has been in gestation for some years.

Martin Leo Kenny Bio

Gender Male

DOB 09.04.1953

Nationality Dual nationality: Australian/Swedish

Permanent Address Kungsholms Hamnplan 3, 11220 Stockholm, SWEDEN

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I have over 30 years of international development experience, in over 50 countries with UNAIDS, UNICEF and UNESCO. Since retirement, in between sailing across the Atlantic three times, I have consulted for various international NGOs trying to pay back 30 years of experience.