****In this "eloquent debut," a young Australian woman unable to find her footing in the world begins to break down when the emergencies she hears working as a 911 operator and the troubles within her own life gradually blur together, forcing her to grapple with how the past has shaped her present (
The Great Inland Sea
โ Scribed by David Francis
- Book ID
- 111068121
- Publisher
- M P Publishing Limited
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 84 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781596928497
- ASIN
- B002YX0OCA
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โฆ Synopsis
Published to great acclaim in six countries, The Great Inland Sea is a haunting novel about a boy who escapes the scorched Australian landscape of his youth with a horse called Unusual, and returns as an adult to nurse his ailing father, discovering the secrets long buried there. The Great Inland Sea is an evocative story of grace and compassion, of a boy's loss and enduring hope as he endeavors to forge connections with the world around him. It marks David Francis as a powerful new literary voice.
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