After the Fire, a Still Small Voice
β Scribed by Evie Wyld; Evie Wyld
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 166 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
After the departure of the woman he loves, Frank struggles to rebuild his life among the sugarcane and sand dunes that surround his oceanside shack. Forty years earlier, Leon is drafted to serve in Vietnam and finds himself suddenly confronting the same experiences that haunt his war-veteran father. As these two stories weave around each otherβeach narrated in a voice as tender as it is fierceβwe learn what binds Frank and Leon together, and what may end up keeping them apart.Β Set in the unforgiving landscape of eastern Australia, Evie Wyldβs accomplished debut tackles the inescapability of the past, the ineffable ties of family, and the wars fought by fathers and sons.From the Trade Paperback edition.
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EDITORIAL REVIEW: Set in the haunting landscape of eastern Australia, this is a stunningly accomplished debut novel about the inescapable past: the ineffable ties of family, the wars fought by fathers and sons, and what goes unsaid.After the departure of the woman he loves, Frank drives out to
After the departure of the woman he loves, Frank struggles to rebuild his life among the sugarcane and sand dunes that surround his oceanside shack. Forty years earlier, Leon is drafted to serve in Vietnam and finds himself suddenly confronting the same experiences that haunt his war-veteran father.
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Set in the haunting landscape of eastern Australia, this is a stunningly accomplished debut novel about the inescapable past: the ineffable ties of family, the wars fought by fathers and sons, and what goes unsaid.After the departure of the woman he loves, Frank drives out to
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