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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... mouth as if poised to ask a question up into those caverns made of shadow and of belief . But didn't ask . Just remained with his tongue poised and that boy held up and couldn't seem to put shape to the question . Worked his tongue and ...
... mouth as if poised to ask a question up into those caverns made of shadow and of belief . But didn't ask . Just remained with his tongue poised and that boy held up and couldn't seem to put shape to the question . Worked his tongue and ...
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... mouth open waiting for me to fill in the blanks . I stare at him with his arse backed up to a scree of sizzling burger parts with his spatula jagging at the air between us . ' I am , ' I tell him . He nods two tiny nods . ' Lakeview van ...
... mouth open waiting for me to fill in the blanks . I stare at him with his arse backed up to a scree of sizzling burger parts with his spatula jagging at the air between us . ' I am , ' I tell him . He nods two tiny nods . ' Lakeview van ...
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... mouth to ask , but his eyes flick to something behind me in my house that makes him shut his mouth on the Benalla question , and makes him nod at the house and nod at me and wave two fin- gers of okay at the house and smile at me like ...
... mouth to ask , but his eyes flick to something behind me in my house that makes him shut his mouth on the Benalla question , and makes him nod at the house and nod at me and wave two fin- gers of okay at the house and smile at me like ...
Contents
Prologue | 1 |
Chapter two Boiled Pink 29 2882 | 29 |
Chapter three Salient Loony | 38 |
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