The Trout Opera - Hardcover

Condon, Matthew

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 038561506X ISBN 13: 9780385615068

Publisher: Doubleday, 2010

Synopsis

After several lifetimes of living anonymously in the outback, Wildred Lampe is finally marked out for greatness in his hundredth year by the Sydney Olympic Committee who need an Australian everyman for their opening ceremony. On the verge of becoming a legend, Wilfred Lampe is in his paddock when a freak accident looks likely to rob him of his chance. Helpless in his hospital bed, Wilfred discovers he has a great-niece, the wild and troubled Aurora. She has come to take him home, where he belongs. As Wilfred and Aurora criss-cross Australia in a clapped-out old Humber Vogue, Wilfred comes face to face with the new Australia, and Aurora, enmeshed in the complex social problems of a modern world, is taught how to repair her life.

About this title

About the Author

Matthew Condon was born in Brisbane in 1962 and has lived in the UK, Germany and France. He is the author of several novels and short story collections, including The Motorcycle Cafe, A Night at the Pink Poodle, The Pillow Fight and Lime Bar. He is the recipient of two Steel Rudd awards for short fiction.

From the Inside Flap

A stunning epic that tells the story of the twentieth century through Australian eyes.

After several lifetimes of living anonymously in the outback, Wilfred Lampe is finally marked out for greatness in his hundredth year by the Sydney Olympic Committee who need an Australian everyman for their opening ceremony. On the verge of becoming a legend, Wilfred is in his paddock when a freak accident looks likely to rob him of his chance.

Helpless in his hospital bed, Wilfred discovers he has a great-niece, the wild and troubled Aurora. She has come to take him home, and together they embark on an unlikely roadtrip across Australia that changes both their lives.

Flamboyant, operatic, inescapably funny, The Trout Opera portrays a mad world of history, war, romance, murder, bushfires, drugs and the fragility and resilience of nature. Through the story of a man who has experienced the tumultuous reverberations of the world while never moving from his birthplace on the Snowy River, it asks, what is this relentless thing called life?

Edition details

• Publisher: Doubleday
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 038561506X
• ISBN 13: 9780385615068
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 576