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 68
... flag competition , ' he says . ' What flag competition ? ' I'm rounding and humping Uluru because it doesn't look like Uluru this time . It looks more like an overweight shoe box . Uluru is a difficult rock to render , per- sonality ...
... flag competition , ' he says . ' What flag competition ? ' I'm rounding and humping Uluru because it doesn't look like Uluru this time . It looks more like an overweight shoe box . Uluru is a difficult rock to render , per- sonality ...
Page 174
... flag up the pole wasn't him . . . but could have been . Because it was his job every day at his primary school to raise that flag and then play this bugle - he holds up an undersized and tarnished horn and turns it for us to inspect ...
... flag up the pole wasn't him . . . but could have been . Because it was his job every day at his primary school to raise that flag and then play this bugle - he holds up an undersized and tarnished horn and turns it for us to inspect ...
Page 236
... flag . Which is obviously your cultural reading of the task a flag performs . Is it ? An indigenous take on what a flag should be ? ' He sucks a pulse of orange into his cigartip . ' Who knows where ideas come from ? ' I ask . I shrug ...
... flag . Which is obviously your cultural reading of the task a flag performs . Is it ? An indigenous take on what a flag should be ? ' He sucks a pulse of orange into his cigartip . ' Who knows where ideas come from ? ' I ask . I shrug ...
Contents
Prologue | 1 |
Chapter two Boiled Pink 29 2882 | 29 |
Chapter three Salient Loony | 38 |
Copyright | |
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