The Sunken Road
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Shortlisted, National Fiction Award, Festival Awards for Literature 1998
Shortlisted, National Book Council 'Banjo' Award 1996
Shortlisted, Benella Award for Best Audio Book, Braille + Talking Book Library Awards 1997
One sweltering morning in the worst year of the Great Depression, when kerosene-tin shanty towns were starving along the city's creeks and the farmers of the northern highlands were walking off the land, a cruising shark snatched a young wife from the shallows at Henley Beach, compelling the stricken husband to flee inland with his baby son, to the main street of Pandowie, where dangers lurked above the ground. He never remarried but the son flourished, joining Stock + Station and marrying an Ison, an old name in the district, settling with her in the big house on Isonville and beginning a family of his own. Anna Antonia Tolley, born 1949. . .
The Sunken Road is a moving, powerful novel set in the wheat and wool country of mid-north South Australia. At once the story of a region, a town and a people, it is also the story of Anna Tolley - leggy, wilful, auburn-haired, always answering back - who lives through momentous changes and earns the envy, love and hatred of those around her.
The Sunken Road sparkles. Details accumulate, secrets rise Details accumulate, secrets rise to the surface, and slowly we are granted tantalising insights into the passions and heartaches of one of the most memorable characters in Australian fiction.
Author: Garry Disher
Format: Paperback, 224 pages, 150mm x 230mm
Published: 1996, Allen & Unwin, Australia
Genre: General & Literary Fiction
Shortlisted, National Fiction Award, Festival Awards for Literature 1998
Shortlisted, National Book Council 'Banjo' Award 1996
Shortlisted, Benella Award for Best Audio Book, Braille + Talking Book Library Awards 1997
One sweltering morning in the worst year of the Great Depression, when kerosene-tin shanty towns were starving along the city's creeks and the farmers of the northern highlands were walking off the land, a cruising shark snatched a young wife from the shallows at Henley Beach, compelling the stricken husband to flee inland with his baby son, to the main street of Pandowie, where dangers lurked above the ground. He never remarried but the son flourished, joining Stock + Station and marrying an Ison, an old name in the district, settling with her in the big house on Isonville and beginning a family of his own. Anna Antonia Tolley, born 1949. . .
The Sunken Road is a moving, powerful novel set in the wheat and wool country of mid-north South Australia. At once the story of a region, a town and a people, it is also the story of Anna Tolley - leggy, wilful, auburn-haired, always answering back - who lives through momentous changes and earns the envy, love and hatred of those around her.
The Sunken Road sparkles. Details accumulate, secrets rise Details accumulate, secrets rise to the surface, and slowly we are granted tantalising insights into the passions and heartaches of one of the most memorable characters in Australian fiction.