Grand Gestures
Janette Turner Hospital
- A River Town by Thomas Keneally
Sceptre, 330 pp, £15.99, March 1995, ISBN 0 340 61093 X
There is something about a millennium, something about the clicking-over of zeros on the odometer of history that sends a frowsy doomsday swell welling up from under. Good round numbers beget both end-of-an-age unease and unreasonable hopes. They breed signs and wonders. They inspire large gestures towards New Beginnings.
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