The Boat
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780307268082 (030726808X)
Publish date: May 13th 2008
Publisher: Knopf
Pages no: 272
Edition language: English
Category:
Academic,
Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Read For School,
Literary Fiction,
Contemporary,
Asian Literature,
Asia,
Short Stories,
Australia,
Short Story Collection
Okay -- "Halflead Bay" is dazzling, a 5-star story stretched some 50 pages (novellette? novella?) and I wish it had been more. I found myself immersed in the local, its own language and rhythms, the social and familial structures and struggles revealed with a confident, understated narrative struct...
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