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Issue Details: First known date: 2006... 2006 Candle Life
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''When a man can't sleep any more, any sleep is a good sleep, and this one turned out to be something like a coma, and filled with you, Yukiko, only you.'

'An Australian novelist is living in an arts community in Paris, trying to write. He is mourning the death of the love of his life, Kiko. Still drowning in grief, one day he is harassed by a beggar, who claims to be a famous American writer, Sonny Lee. As his life is penetrated by Sonny it begins to unravel. Soon the novelist encounters Zoya, a mute Russian girl with whom he makes love, and in turn she introduces him to Les Belles Endormies - a place where, after drinking a potent green tea, clients fall asleep and experience hallucinogenic dreams about episodes in their past. In the meantime the death of a friend brings the novelist into contact with Emilie, and slowly love begins to seem possible to him again.

'The story moves from Paris's artistic community to the maelstrom of a dance party in the city's streets to its chilling subterranean catacombs to the eerie thermal springs of Pamukkale in Turkey. Dealing with the nature of reality and dreams, of love, identity, despair and salvation, this is a truly brilliant and startlingly original novel.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Milsons Point, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Vintage Australia , 2006 .
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      Extent: 351p.
      ISBN: 9781741661200, 174166120X

Works about this Work

Burning Ambition Terry Oberg , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 22 - 23 April 2006; (p. 19)

— Review of Candle Life Venero Armanno , 2006 single work novel
Armanno : Man of Passion David Gilchrist , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: The West Australian , 16 December 2006; (p. 8)

— Review of Candle Life Venero Armanno , 2006 single work novel
Beggar's Banker Phil Brown , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: Brisbane News , 12 - 18 July no. 595 2006; (p. 10-11)

— Review of Candle Life Venero Armanno , 2006 single work novel
Untitled Peter Pierce , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 9 May vol. 124 no. 6519 2006; (p. 69)

— Review of Candle Life Venero Armanno , 2006 single work novel
Burning Bright Katharine England , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 17 June 2006; (p. 10)

— Review of Candle Life Venero Armanno , 2006 single work novel
Paris More than a Match for Blow-Ins Cath Kenneally , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 29-30 April 2006; (p. 10)

— Review of Candle Life Venero Armanno , 2006 single work novel
Deep in the Labyrinths of Paris and the Imagination A. P. Riemer , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 6-7 May 2006; (p. 32-33)

— Review of Candle Life Venero Armanno , 2006 single work novel
Shadowland Kerryn Goldsworthy , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 281 2006; (p. 35)

— Review of Candle Life Venero Armanno , 2006 single work novel
Flame Burns Bright for 'Candle Life' Ian McFarlane , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 20 May 2006; (p. 13)

— Review of Candle Life Venero Armanno , 2006 single work novel
Finding Light at Narrative Endings James Ley , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 27 May 2006; (p. 23)

— Review of Candle Life Venero Armanno , 2006 single work novel
Last amended 11 Jun 2020 13:11:33
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    France,
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    Western Europe, Europe,
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    Turkey,
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    Middle East, Asia,
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