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After the Fire, a Still Small Voice - Evie Wyld
After the Fire, a Still Small Voice
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Set in the haunting landscape of eastern Australia, this is a stunningly accomplished debut novel about the inescapable past: the ineffable ties of family, the wars fought by fathers and sons, and what goes unsaid.After the departure of the woman he loves, Frank drives out to a shack by the ocean... show more
Set in the haunting landscape of eastern Australia, this is a stunningly accomplished debut novel about the inescapable past: the ineffable ties of family, the wars fought by fathers and sons, and what goes unsaid.After the departure of the woman he loves, Frank drives out to a shack by the ocean that he had last visited as a teenager. There, among the sugarcane and sand dunes, he struggles to rebuild his life.Forty years earlier, Leon is growing up in Sydney, turning out treacle tarts at his parents’ bakery and flirting with one of the local girls. But when he’s drafted to serve in Vietnam, he finds himself suddenly confronting the same experiences that haunt his war-veteran father.As these two stories weave around each other–each narrated in a voice as tender as it is fierce–we learn what binds Frank and Leon together, and what may end up keeping them apart.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN: 9780307378460 (0307378462)
Publisher: Pantheon
Pages no: 304
Edition language: English
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Kinga's Reading
Kinga's Reading rated it
4.0
What can I say about a book that had me gripped in alternate chapters and skimming the text in the others? Leon's story was the one I wanted more of and the one I couldn't wait to read. Frank's story is, to me, bit more boring and dull with predictable experiences of the "angry young man". When this...
Expendable Mudge Muses Aloud
Expendable Mudge Muses Aloud rated it
2.0
Rating: 2* of fiveHow awful it must be to be heterosexual...to know, with the full force of society's blasting, trumpeting inculcation of knowledge that your Object of Desire will not, can not, indeed may not, ever make sense to you.Evie Wyld presents the stories of three generations of miserable me...
The Drift Of Things
The Drift Of Things rated it
4.0
Quite an ambitious debut novel for this Australian writer. I like her prose style and her ability to create a sense of atmosphere in the story. Remember that old saying about the sins of the fathers being visited upon the children? I think this story shows how the wounds of the fathers are passed ...
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