Publisher's Synopsis
Winner Western Australian Premier's Book Awards 2006Swinging between the "hysterically quiet' of Australian towns and China's commercialisation of Mao, between allegorical voyages and densities of affection, Dennis Haskell's All the Time in the World provides explorations of the nature of truth and the meaning - if any - of human emotions. Language stands here in varying relations to the world, sometimes fragile, sometimes firm, in portraying a deep link between "the unsayable" and the ordinary.Is love meaningless or utterly valuable? Are the meanings of human life discovered or made? Is identity rooted in place or flying about a globalised world? The book explores meanings underwritten by death, and pits a breadth of language against the values of a contemporary world dominated by the anonymity of money.
