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 40
... face in grainy black - and- white looking vaguely historical and vaguely lobotomised on the front window of Trips Into Danger Pty Ltd facing Brunswick Street right under the TRIPS INTO DANGER sign I'd painted for her . Underneath his face ...
... face in grainy black - and- white looking vaguely historical and vaguely lobotomised on the front window of Trips Into Danger Pty Ltd facing Brunswick Street right under the TRIPS INTO DANGER sign I'd painted for her . Underneath his face ...
Page 52
... face opens up into the anger and into the self - worth the redhead one was trying to propagate there and she picks a glass of chardonnay off the table and throws it in my face like it was me had the giveaway hint of Jardin De Bagatelle ...
... face opens up into the anger and into the self - worth the redhead one was trying to propagate there and she picks a glass of chardonnay off the table and throws it in my face like it was me had the giveaway hint of Jardin De Bagatelle ...
Page 134
... face ever guesses - Mother . He's about to use his pink police face to ask me another ques- tion , which I think might be ' Benalla ? ' like Ben Rogers started with and which is a close and likely town . He opens his mouth to ask , but ...
... face ever guesses - Mother . He's about to use his pink police face to ask me another ques- tion , which I think might be ' Benalla ? ' like Ben Rogers started with and which is a close and likely town . He opens his mouth to ask , but ...
Contents
Prologue | 1 |
Chapter two Boiled Pink 29 2882 | 29 |
Chapter three Salient Loony | 38 |
Copyright | |
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