{"product_id":"buy-in-the-half-light-anthony-lawrence-conf20260630151","title":"In the Half Light (Anthony Lawrence)","description":"\u003ch1\u003eIn the Half Light (Anthony Lawrence)\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Author: Anthony Lawrence \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e About Book \u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Publisher: Picador \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e isbn: 9780330485517 \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e Condition \u0026amp; Size \u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Size: Format C (Large Format) \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Book Type: Paperback \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e Condition: Very Good \u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e Summary\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003e\nTo outsiders, James Molloy is nothing exceptional: an average student, perhaps quieter than most, sometimes in trouble, much loved by his parents. But James knows that he is different. He has visions, and in their eerie half light two worlds - the one that he lives in and the one that lives in him-collide, intermingle, coalesce. And sometimes out of the vibrant and amazing confusion inside his head come voices that glide from his mind into his mouth. Vision finds a language of its own.\n\n\nAlone, isolated by his difference, James faces a future without close companionship until the day that he meets Stephanie Riley. A sympathetic guide, Stephanie extends to him the encouragement of an initiate as she leads him to unexpected truths and possibilities. Driven to explore the half light of his life, to find out what lies at the center of his curious universe, James begins a heart-rending journey that takes him from rural Australia, where he falls in love with, then tragically loses, the sweetly spirited Tina to the west coast of Ireland and the emotionally turbulent world of Sarah Carmichael, the hard-drinking, brittle, talented, and vulnerable fiddle-player in a band called Lapwing.\n\n\nArtfully conceived and beautifully realized, Anthony Lawrence's debut novel charts a young man's arduous struggle with his artistic imagination and long battle with schizophrenia as well as his emergence from a headful of secrets into the clarity of self-awareness. With quiet optimism and a haunting poignancy it demonstrates that all things - friendship, art, love, tomorrow - become possible once when we learn to\n\ntrust our fear.\n\n\nAnthony Lawrence, a native of New South Wales, Australia, has worked as a stockman, truck driver, and teacher of English and drama. He is the author of six books of poetry that have won many awards, and currently lives in Hobart, Tasmania. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lawrence, Anthony","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43180720586829,"sku":"CONF20260630151","price":89.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0557\/3856\/4685\/files\/9780330485517_20260629_123512.jpg?v=1782817498","url":"https:\/\/readmatter.co.za\/products\/buy-in-the-half-light-anthony-lawrence-conf20260630151","provider":"Readmatter","version":"1.0","type":"link"}