Sleeping Dogs-Viking Cased USA Edn - Hardcover

Hartnett, Sonya

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670865036 ISBN 13: 9780670865031

Publisher: Puffin, 1995

Synopsis

When a stranger enters a family's midst and insists on discovering all of their darkest secrets, the family begins a slow and painful descent into decay and madness. By the author of Wilful Blue.

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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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Puffin
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0670865036
• ISBN 13: 9780670865031
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 160