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The idea of perfection

Douglas Cheeseman is a big-eared engineer who avoids his own reflection and has bored his wife into leaving him. Newly single, he's the sort of man you'd never look at twice. Harley Savage is a large, raw-boned, abrasive woman who's been through three husbands and doesn't want another. Neither character seems to be a prime subject for a burgeoning romance. Both Douglas and Harley are carrying all kinds of unhappy baggage when they meet by chance in the little town of Karakarook, New South Wales, population 1,374, on opposing sides of a local issue that's got tempers flaring. Being in Karakarook is something of a voyage of discovery for both of them. Unlike Felicity Porcelline, a local woman dangerously haunted by the idea of perfection, Douglas and Harley come to understand that what appears to others as weakness is often the best kind of strength.

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  • "Douglas Cheeseman is a big-eared engineer who avoids his own reflection and has bored his wife into leaving him. Newly single, he's the sort of man you'd never look at twice. Harley Savage is a large, raw-boned, abrasive woman who's been through three husbands and doesn't want another. Neither character seems to be a prime subject for a burgeoning romance. Both Douglas and Harley are carrying all kinds of unhappy baggage when they meet by chance in the little town of Karakarook, New South Wales, population 1,374, on opposing sides of a local issue that's got tempers flaring. Being in Karakarook is something of a voyage of discovery for both of them. Unlike Felicity Porcelline, a local woman dangerously haunted by the idea of perfection, Douglas and Harley come to understand that what appears to others as weakness is often the best kind of strength."@en
  • ""Harley Savage is a plain, rawboned woman, a part-time museum curator and quilting expert with three failed marriages and a heart condition. Douglas Cheeseman is a shy, gawky engineer with jug-handle ears, one marriage gone sour, and a crippling lack of physical courage. Seeming to be incompetent was something Douglas did to protect himself, just as having a "dangerous streak" served the same purpose for Harley."--Jacket."
  • ""Harley Savage is a plain, rawboned woman, a part-time museum curator and quilting expert with three failed marriages and a heart condition. Douglas Cheeseman is a shy, gawky engineer with jug-handle ears, one marriage gone sour, and a crippling lack of physical courage. Seeming to be incompetent was something Douglas did to protect himself, just as having a "dangerous streak" served the same purpose for Harley."--Jacket."@en
  • "Funny and touching romance between two people who have given up on love. Set in a tiny town in Australia."@en
  • "The Bent Bridge in Karakarook brings Douglas Cheeseman and Harley Savage together. Douglas is an unassuming divorced, middle-aged man; Harley, big, plain, and uncompromising, knows she's a danger to herself and anyone who tries to get too close. Harley wants to save the bridge; Douglas is in town to tear it down."@en
  • "A story set in a dying country town that is hoping tourism will bring about its resurrection and about the lives of the people who live in the town."
  • "Set in the eccentric backwater of Karakarook (pop. 1374) New South Wales, this is the story of Doughlas Cheeseman, a shy and clumsy engineer with jug-ears who meets Harley Savage, a woman who is known for being rather large and abrupt. Douglas is there to pull down a quaint old bridge and Harley aims to foster heritage. They are clearly on a collision course - but when they meet they are unaware that something unexpected is going to happen..."
  • "Harley Savage is a plain woman, a part-time museum curator and quilting expert with three failed marriages and a heart condition. Douglas Cheeseman is a shy, gawky engineer with jug-handle ears, one marriage gone sour, and a crippling lack of physical courage. They meet in the little Australian town of Karakarook, where Harley has arrived to help the town build a heritage museum and Douglas to demolish the quaint old Bent Bridge. From the beginning they are on a collision course until the unexpected sets them both free. Elegantly and compassionately told, The Idea of Perfection is reminiscent of the work of Carol Shields and Annie Proulx and reveals Kate Grenville as "a writer of extraordinary talent" (The New York Times Book Review)."@en
  • "De oudere conservatrice van een museum en een sociaal onhandige bouwkundige, die niet meer op de liefde hadden gerekend, ontmoeten elkaar in een Australisch dorp."
  • "Winner of the Orange Prize. In the small town of Karakarook, Douglas Cheeseman and Harvey Savage seem the least likely people in the world to fall in love. Unlike Felicity Porcelline, a woman dangerously haunted by the idea of perfection, they come to understand that what looks like weakness can be the best kind of strength."@en
  • "Harley Savage, a part-time museum curator and quilting expert with three failed marriages under her belt, falls in love with a gawky engineer when the two arrive in the eccentric country town of Karakarook at the same time."@en

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  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "General"
  • "Love stories"
  • "Love stories"@en
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  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Australian fiction"@en
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  • "Idea of perfection"
  • "Eine Ahnung von Vollkommenheit Roman"
  • "Drømmen om det perfekte forhold"@da
  • "Drømmen om det perfekte forhold"
  • "Dromen van volmaaktheid"
  • "The idea of perfection"
  • "The idea of perfection"@en
  • "The Idea of Perfection"@en
  • "Eine ahnung von vollkommenheit : Roman"
  • "Drommen om det perfekte forhold : roman"@en
  • "The Idea Of Perfection"
  • "Eine Ahnung von Vollkommenheit : Roman"
  • "Drommen om det perfekte forhold"@en
  • "Drømmen om det perfekte forhold : roman"@da
  • "The idea of perfection [a novel]"
  • "Eine ahnung von vollkommenheit : roman"

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