The Broken Shore: A Novel
by:
Peter Temple (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780374116934 (0374116938)
ASIN: 0374116938
Publish date: 2007-05-29
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages no: 368
Edition language: English
Category:
Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Mystery,
Detective,
Contemporary,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Crime,
Australia,
Fiction
This book was recommended to me by one of my GR friends (thanks Cam) and it was well worth it. It is the story of an Australian police man who has been re-assigned to what is supposed to be a sleepy backwater where he grew up so that he can recuperate from injuries. Instead, he becomes involved in...
Ugh, this book was just plain bad...I had to stop. I tried, I really, really tried. The sentences were cut off half the time and I had a really hard time comprehending anything in it...I got about 100 pages in and the plot was moving along too slowly, so combined together, I gave up on the whole t...