Stormy Weather
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Author: Michael Meehan
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 224
The dazzling new novel from the author of the acclaimed The Salt of Broken Tears 'an imagination of another order' The Australian In a tiny country town in northwest Victoria in 1955, the year before the introduction of television, a troupe of vaudeville artists arrive to give a concert. Their impact on each other -- and the inhabitants of the town -- over a single 24-hour period of almost continuous rain, reveals exhausted hopes, secret dreams, plots of betrayal and anarchic optimism. Stormy Weather demonstrates Michael Meehan's inspired rapport with the Australian landscape and the characters who cling to its remote areas -- characters as diverse as the malicious yet oddly innocent rabbiter, the pale Englishwoman saxophonist, the weeping middle-aged soprano, and the enigmatic, endlessly scribbling compere, for whom this town may be the last curtain call. Each has their own story, and their own particular revelation in the course of this lyrical - and at times blackly comic - work.
Author: Michael Meehan
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 224
The dazzling new novel from the author of the acclaimed The Salt of Broken Tears 'an imagination of another order' The Australian In a tiny country town in northwest Victoria in 1955, the year before the introduction of television, a troupe of vaudeville artists arrive to give a concert. Their impact on each other -- and the inhabitants of the town -- over a single 24-hour period of almost continuous rain, reveals exhausted hopes, secret dreams, plots of betrayal and anarchic optimism. Stormy Weather demonstrates Michael Meehan's inspired rapport with the Australian landscape and the characters who cling to its remote areas -- characters as diverse as the malicious yet oddly innocent rabbiter, the pale Englishwoman saxophonist, the weeping middle-aged soprano, and the enigmatic, endlessly scribbling compere, for whom this town may be the last curtain call. Each has their own story, and their own particular revelation in the course of this lyrical - and at times blackly comic - work.
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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only.
Author: Michael Meehan
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 224
The dazzling new novel from the author of the acclaimed The Salt of Broken Tears 'an imagination of another order' The Australian In a tiny country town in northwest Victoria in 1955, the year before the introduction of television, a troupe of vaudeville artists arrive to give a concert. Their impact on each other -- and the inhabitants of the town -- over a single 24-hour period of almost continuous rain, reveals exhausted hopes, secret dreams, plots of betrayal and anarchic optimism. Stormy Weather demonstrates Michael Meehan's inspired rapport with the Australian landscape and the characters who cling to its remote areas -- characters as diverse as the malicious yet oddly innocent rabbiter, the pale Englishwoman saxophonist, the weeping middle-aged soprano, and the enigmatic, endlessly scribbling compere, for whom this town may be the last curtain call. Each has their own story, and their own particular revelation in the course of this lyrical - and at times blackly comic - work.
Author: Michael Meehan
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 224
The dazzling new novel from the author of the acclaimed The Salt of Broken Tears 'an imagination of another order' The Australian In a tiny country town in northwest Victoria in 1955, the year before the introduction of television, a troupe of vaudeville artists arrive to give a concert. Their impact on each other -- and the inhabitants of the town -- over a single 24-hour period of almost continuous rain, reveals exhausted hopes, secret dreams, plots of betrayal and anarchic optimism. Stormy Weather demonstrates Michael Meehan's inspired rapport with the Australian landscape and the characters who cling to its remote areas -- characters as diverse as the malicious yet oddly innocent rabbiter, the pale Englishwoman saxophonist, the weeping middle-aged soprano, and the enigmatic, endlessly scribbling compere, for whom this town may be the last curtain call. Each has their own story, and their own particular revelation in the course of this lyrical - and at times blackly comic - work.
Stormy Weather
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