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"Alcoholic, abusive Griffin Willow lives with his emotionally distant wife and their five deeply disturbed children on a run-down farm in rural Australia. They run a tourist trailer park that guests never visit twice. Kate Hosking's performance gives this grim story an objective distance that listeners will appreciate. Hosking's sultry voice with its matter-of-fact yet ominous delivery brings an unsentimental pathos to the brutality of everyday living. The Willows's hardscrabble existence includes violence, incest, murder, and madness, each as common as the bloody slaughtering of sheep or the snarling of vicious dogs. Hartnett's bleak portrait of loneliness and survival and Hosking's intelligent narration paint a tragic picture, terrible in its realism." (AudioFile Magazine)
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- PublisherPuffin
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 0670860042
- ISBN 13 9780670860043
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages144
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Sleeping Dogs
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(1995)
ISBN 10: 0670860042
ISBN 13: 9780670860043
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Book Description Medium Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Medium Trade Paperback. 130 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Viking, Australia, 1995. Reprint. *** CONDITION: This book is in very good condition. More specifically: Covers have no creasing. Corners of covers are lightly bumped. Spine is uncreased. . Pages are reasonably tanned. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Children & Young Adult; Teenage Fiction; ISBN: 0670860042. ISBN/EAN: 9780670860043. Inventory No: 16090303. Seller Inventory # 16090303
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