The Evening Hour: A Novel
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781608195978 (160819597X)
Publish date: January 17th 2012
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Pages no: 327
Edition language: English
This was a good read. No surprises, but solid storytelling. The main character, Cole (whose name is a little too on the nose for most readers), is a likeable underdog who is doing well for himself with small-time illegal drug trading in a fast-decaying rural town. He is too smart to ignore the twin ...
I won’t re-summarise the story of The Evening Hour as the synopsis says it all. This is an often bleak, sometimes depressing story with some shocking insights into the dramatics and politics of a small town, ravaged by poverty, drugs and the mining industry. I found it easy to sympathise, in some wa...