# A Curious Earth

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- Authors: [Gerard Woodward](https://www.bookquiver.com/gerard-woodward)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2008-03-06

## Description

By the author of Booker-shortlisted I'll Go To Bed At Noon. Aldous Jones is in a bad way: his dilapidated house is empty of family but full of hoarded odds and ends that remind him of his dead wife and son. A preference for whisky over washing rapidly leads to his hospitalisation but it also reawakens his desire for sex and adventure and his lifelong passion for art. What follows is a heartbreakingly funny quest that will lead him first to the National Gallery, where he is bewitched by a Rembrandt painting, and then to Ostend, to stay with his boemian son and a ridiculous Dutch sexologist and then through a series of somewhat misguided relationships with sympathetic women to an ending of devatating poignancy...

## Editions

### A Curious Earth

- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-00-9949-065-4
- Pages: 304
- Published: 2008-03-06
- Language: en_GB