Love without Hope
Picador, $22.95 pb, 270 pp, 0330422888
Fiction
Love without Hope by Rodney Hall
by Rosemary Sorensen •
A conversation about an anachronism led Rodney Hall to this new novel, Love without Hope. He acknowledges his wife as the person who informed him that until the 1980s there was a Department of Lunacy in New South Wales, with an asylum superintendent titled the Master of Lunacy.
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