The Art of the Engine Driver

Carroll, Steven

ISBN 10: 0099537273 / ISBN 13: 9780099537274

Published by Penguin Random House, 2010

About this Item

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Art of the Engine Driver
• Publisher: Penguin Random House
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0099537273
• ISBN 13: 9780099537274
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 0.47 pounds

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Synopsis

There they are, still as a photograph, listening for the distant thud of the sun as it prepares to drop from the sky...

On a hot summer's night, a family of three are off to a party in their bristling suburbia. But nothing is as it seems and soon we are walking with them through the past lives of a bully, a drunk and a disaffected youth.

As the story of the neighbourhood unfolds the old and the new, diesel and steam, town and country all collide - and nobody will be left unaffected.

The Art of the Engine Driver is a luminous and evocative take on ordinary suburban lives told with an extraordinary power and depth.

About the Author

Steven Carroll was born in Melbourne. His first novel, Remember Me, Jimmy James, was published in 1992. The Art of the Engine Driver (2001) and The Gift of Speed (2004) were shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award, which the final book in the trilogy, The Time We Have Taken, won in 2008. Steven Carroll lives in Melbourne with his partner and son.