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 19
... watch droughts and watch floods and watch years come and go . It's not droughts , she tells him . It's not 19 TIN TOYS.
... watch droughts and watch floods and watch years come and go . It's not droughts , she tells him . It's not 19 TIN TOYS.
Page 86
... watch them go past silver and antique and shake their heads , rebuked by their silver antiquity , and tell their pas- sengers , ' Salt , ' and watch their passengers nod their heads in sad agreement and listen to their passengers tell ...
... watch them go past silver and antique and shake their heads , rebuked by their silver antiquity , and tell their pas- sengers , ' Salt , ' and watch their passengers nod their heads in sad agreement and listen to their passengers tell ...
Page 367
... watch the parade come down the sunlit centre of St Kilda Road . The crowd hushes at its approach . Leading , on the back of a Ken- worth flatbed , is an aboriginal band in bright red loincloths , their dark skin piebald with white ...
... watch the parade come down the sunlit centre of St Kilda Road . The crowd hushes at its approach . Leading , on the back of a Ken- worth flatbed , is an aboriginal band in bright red loincloths , their dark skin piebald with white ...
Contents
Prologue | 1 |
Chapter two Boiled Pink 29 2882 | 29 |
Chapter three Salient Loony | 38 |
Copyright | |
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