Tin ToysNovel dealing with issues of change, identity and loss. Hunter Carlyon has had several identities - first as a black baby, then as a white boy, black youth, white man and black man. The woman he loves has disappeared in a war-zone and he is haunted by her voice on his mobile phone. Author's previous novel is 'Silences Long Gone'. |
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Page 271
... Melbourne's sister city , which is Osaka . Always speaking proudly and at length of the love of the sister citizens of that faraway sister city for their sister citizens in Melbourne before tugging on the short string and drawing the ...
... Melbourne's sister city , which is Osaka . Always speaking proudly and at length of the love of the sister citizens of that faraway sister city for their sister citizens in Melbourne before tugging on the short string and drawing the ...
Page 283
... Melbourne that knocks that dream off that mental shelf . Down there on the foreshore its hydraulic hoses twitch and its rams lift its half - ton of wrap - iron deadweight up its slide to where it touches the trip release and it leaps ...
... Melbourne that knocks that dream off that mental shelf . Down there on the foreshore its hydraulic hoses twitch and its rams lift its half - ton of wrap - iron deadweight up its slide to where it touches the trip release and it leaps ...
Page 364
... Melbourne into South Melbourne . Eddies of north wind are spiralling chip packets and plastic bags along the gutters and across the roads . In the front yard of a red brick Edwardian in Tribe Street a family is playing cricket like it's ...
... Melbourne into South Melbourne . Eddies of north wind are spiralling chip packets and plastic bags along the gutters and across the roads . In the front yard of a red brick Edwardian in Tribe Street a family is playing cricket like it's ...
Contents
Prologue | 1 |
Chapter two Boiled Pink 29 2882 | 29 |
Chapter three Salient Loony | 38 |
Copyright | |
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