Awards
- Short-listed for ABA Nielsen BookData Booksellers Choice Award 2014 (Australia)
- Short-listed for The Indie Awards 2014 (Australia)
- Shortlisted for Australian Independent Booksellers Indie Awards: Debut Fiction 2014.
- Shortlisted for Nielsen BookData/ABA Book of the Year Award - Booksellers' Choice 2014.
- Winner of ABIA Australian Book of the Year 2014.
- Winner of Victorian Premier's Literary Award - Unpublished Manuscript 2012.
Overview
'Funny and heartwarming, a gem of a book.' Marian Keyes A first-date dud, socially awkward, and overly fond of quick-dry clothes, Don Tillman has givenup on love. Until a chance encounter gives him an idea. He will design a questionnaire-asixteen-page, scientifically researched questionnaire-to uncover the perfect partner. She willmost definitely not be a barmaid, a smoker, a drinker or a late-arriver. Rosie is all these things. She is also fiery and intelligent, strangely beguiling. And looking for herbiological father-a search that a DNA expert might just be able to help her with. The Rosie Project is a romantic comedy like no other. It is arrestingly endearing and entirelyunconventional, and it will make you want to drink cocktails.
Full Product Details
Author: Graeme Simsion
Publisher: Text Publishing
Imprint: The Text Publishing Company
Volume: 1
Dimensions:
Width: 15.50cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.435kg
ISBN: 9781922079770
ISBN 10: 1922079774
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 30 January 2013
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
'Although there are many laughs to be found in this marvellous novel, The Rosie Project is a serious reflection on our need for companionship and identity. Don Tillman is as awkward and confusing a narrator as he is lovable and charming.' -- John Boyne, author of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
Celeste writes: The hype about The Rosie Project is worth buying into - this is a fantastic book. Don Tillman is a Professor of Genetics with Aspergers Syndrome. On the advice of his elderly neighbor and friend, Don decides that it's time to find a life partner, and goes about getting one in the only way he sees as rational: by creating The Wife Project. Women systematically complete Don's perfectly researched questionnaire, but this only yields a series of increasingly comic catastrophes. Then Rosie walks into Don's life, an incredibly beautiful, constantly late, vegetarian, smoker and bartender: completely unsuitable for the Wife Project. Rosie is searching for her birth father, and Don offers to use the university's DNA testing machines, without the Dean's knowledge. What follows is a moving adventure, a fast-paced story that takes us from Shepparton to New York, interspersed with moment of absolute hilarity: Don practices sex positions with a skeleton from the anatomy department. This is an interesting book: what at first seems like a light read turns out to be an investigation of prejudice, stereotyping and morality. We're all a little bit like Don, really.
Author Information
Graeme Simsion is the internationally bestselling author of The Rosie Project, The Rosie Effect, The Rosie Result and The Best of Adam Sharp. He lives with Anne Buist, co-author of Two Steps Forward and Two Steps Onward, in Melbourne, Australia.
