A Sand Archive Shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2019

✍ Scribed by Gregory Day

• Publisher: Pan Macmillan Australia
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: en-AU
• Weight: 263 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 1760780065

✦ Synopsis

Long before I ever met him I knew his name from the leaky dessicated type of a grey-brown slim volume, cheaply printed but essential to my research**...**

Seeking stories of Australia's Great Ocean Road, a young writer stumbles across a manual from a minor player in the road's history, FB Herschell. It is a volume unremarkable in every way, save for the surprising portrait of its author that can be read between its lines: a vision of a man who writes with uncanny poetry about sand.

And as he continues to mine the archive of FB Herschell - engineer, historian, philosopher - it is not the subject, but the man who begins to fascinate. A man whose private revolution among the streets of Paris in May 1968 begins to change the way he views life, love, and the coastal landscape into which he was born...

✦ Subjects

Literature