Below the Styx - Couverture souple

Meehan, Michael

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1741757800 ISBN 13 : 9781741757804

Editeur : Allen & Unwin, 2010

Synopsis

Martin Frobisher has been beating close family members about the head with an epergne. Frobisher, successful publisher and community leader, is in the City Remand Centre, awaiting trial for murder. What shadow has fallen across the comfortable lives of Frobisher, his ambitious wife Coralie and her flaky sister Madeleine? What has led a cultivated and reflective man, known to shoo spiders and earwigs out of the harm's way, to such reckless acts of violence? With the prospect of imprisonment for the Term of his Natural Life, can Frobisher and his research assistant Petra find guidance in the life and fortunes of a brilliant young Englishman, marooned in Australia, 'the land of vulgarity and mob rule' more than a century earlier, and obsessed with the darker moments in the nation's history? Why does Frobisher appear to care more, in the end, about the life of Marcus Clarke than he does about his own?

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Michael Meehan grew up in the north-west of Victoria. He studies law at the University of Adelaide, and literature at Monash and Cambridge Universities. He has taught in universities in many countries in Europe and Asia, and is a professor and former Head of the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University. His novels have been published in Australia, the UK, and the US, and he won the NSW Premier's Award for Fiction in 2000 with his first novel, The Salt of Broken Tears.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Allen & Unwin
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1741757800
• ISBN 13: 9781741757804
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 284
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• Personne responsable: non disponible