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Past the Shallows - Favel Parrett
Past the Shallows
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Shortlisted for the 2012 Miles Franklin Award, PAST THE SHALLOWS is a powerful and hauntingly beautiful novel from an extraordinary new Australian writer who is compared with Cormac McCarthy and Tim Winton. 'If you read only one book this year, make sure it's this' Sunday TimesEveryone loves... show more
Shortlisted for the 2012 Miles Franklin Award, PAST THE SHALLOWS is a powerful and hauntingly beautiful novel from an extraordinary new Australian writer who is compared with Cormac McCarthy and Tim Winton. 'If you read only one book this year, make sure it's this' Sunday TimesEveryone loves Harry. Except his father.Joe, Miles and Harry are growing up on the remote south coast of Tasmania. The brothers' lives are shaped by their father's moods - like the ocean he fishes, he is wild and unpredictable. He is a bitter man, with a devastating secret.Miles does his best to watch out for Harry, the youngest, but he can't be there all the time. Often alone, Harry finds joy in the small treasures he discovers, in shark eggs and cuttlefish bones. In a kelpie pup, a mug of hot chocolate, and a secret friendship with a mysterious neighbour.But sometimes small treasures, or a brother's love are not enough.
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Format: kindle
ASIN: B008JO4654
Publisher: John Murray
Pages no: 289
Edition language: English
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Quite Spectacular
Quite Spectacular rated it
4.0 Past The Shallows by Favel Parrett
Knowing Favel Parrett is Australian meant that I had exceedingly high expectations for Past The Shallows. A little unfair perhaps but I have yet to come across an Australian YA novel that I dislike. I am pleased to announce this statemement is still true. Past The Shallows is hauntingly beautiful an...
Ryan DeJonghe - The Avid Reader
Ryan DeJonghe - The Avid Reader rated it
5.0
Cormac McCarthy, Per Petterson, and Maya Angelou: the three authors inspiring Favel Parrett. Reading PAST THE SHALLOWS indeed reminded me of McCarthy’s THE ROAD. No wonder. Favel says she has the last paragraph of that work hanging in her studio, reading it most days. What I’m saying is this—as the ...
ReadingBooks
ReadingBooks rated it
3.5 Gutes Buch mit Potenzial nach oben
Also dieses Buch hat mich echt fertig gemacht. Erst bin ich total verwirrt und komm wegen dem Schreibstil nicht wirklich in die Geschichte und dann haut sie mir eins von hinten über ;) Fast wirkt es wie das Leben einer der Familien aus amerikanischen Dramen: Mutter tot, Vater greift zum Alkohol und ...
Susieq777
Susieq777 rated it
5.0 Past the Shallows - Favell Parrett
The term "Wintonesque" was woven more than once through the reviews at the front of this first published novel by Aussie female writer Favel Parrett. It's not just the parallels in writing style and content - the surf, the beautiful, redemptive surf - but it's also in the narrator's eye. There's a k...
build.a.bookshelf
build.a.bookshelf rated it
3.0 Past the Shallows
3.5 starsMuch thanks to NetGalley, the publisher, and author for the advanced copy to reviewAs some adults later do, sometimes I wish that my parents would have done something different or I feel deprived in some way. That is, until I read books on children with abusive and bitter parents that coul...
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