Sleeping Dogs - Hardcover

Sonya, Hartnett

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670860042 ISBN 13: 9780670860043

Publisher: Puffin, 1995

Synopsis

'We must be ruthless', Edward snarls, 'because we lead ruthless lives: you, of anyone, should understand that. This is our existence, Jordan, this house, this land, that father, that mother - there's no pity, there's no mercy, there's probably no escape. It is hard, Jordan, and we have to be hard to survive it, and the best we can do is fight anything that threatens to make it worse.'

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Review

"Fascinating and disturbing, this chilling story reveals how morality can be twisted by obsessive family loyalty." (Publishers Weekly)

"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)

Book Description

From the award-winning author of Thursday's Child.

Edition details

• Publisher: Puffin
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0670860042
• ISBN 13: 9780670860043
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 144