The Gorgeous Inertia of the Earth - Paperback

by Adrian Duncan (Author)

One winter, in a secluded Alpine city, Irish sculptor John
Molloy meets Bernadette, an enigmatic Italian sociologist. As John falls in
love, a distressing moment from his youth rises into view, the disastrous
fallout of which has reverberated unchecked through his life.

Years later, a letter from home arrives, asking him to pray for the speedy
death of an ailing friend. Over a day-long odyssey through the ancient streets
and churches of Bologna, John is forced to confront his present, his past and
the bedrock of his psyche. A delicately crafted novel of two halves, a decade
apart, The Gorgeous Inertia of the Earth is a masterful
excavation of human desires, inhibitions and the patterns of habit to which we
unwittingly fall prey.

Author Biography

Adrian Duncan is an Irish artist and writer. He is the
author of Love Notes from a German Building Site, which won the John McGahern
Book Prize, A Sabbatical in Leipzig, which was shortlisted for the Kerry Novel
of the Year, and The Geometer Lobachevsky. The Gorgeous Inertia of the
Earth is his fourth novel.