John Tesarsch
Craig Billingham reviews 'The Last Will and Testament of Henry Hoffman' by John Tesarsch
Craig Billingham
Friday, 18 December 2015
John Tesarsch's second novel, following the acclaimed The Philanthropist (2010), concerns the will of Henry Hoffman, a brilliant but taciturn mathematician who has committed suicide on his farm in rural Victoria. Hoffman's three children – doctoral student Eleano ...
The initial premise of John Tesarsch’s first novel sounds like a modern-day reworking of Dickens’s A Christmas Carol as seen through the prism of B-grade Hollywood melodrama ...
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