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 71
... Port Melbourne with their far - flung culture motif tatts flexing as they rip and tear at her with their silver jaws and carry her off in savoury hunks to be sold into the local back- street garages where motor mechanics use nothing but ...
... Port Melbourne with their far - flung culture motif tatts flexing as they rip and tear at her with their silver jaws and carry her off in savoury hunks to be sold into the local back- street garages where motor mechanics use nothing but ...
Page 283
... Port 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 ...
... Port 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 ...
Page 364
... Port 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 ...
... Port 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 ...
Contents
Prologue | 1 |
Chapter two Boiled Pink 29 2882 | 29 |
Chapter three Salient Loony | 38 |
Copyright | |
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