One Boy Missing

Orr, Stephen

ISBN 10: 1922147273 / ISBN 13: 9781922147271

Published by Text Publishing Company, 2015

About this Item

Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: One Boy Missing
• Publisher: Text Publishing Company
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1922147273
• ISBN 13: 9781922147271
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 0.842 pounds

About this title

Synopsis

'A sensitive and sometimes-moving look at a man drowning in the sorrows of his past, with a prickly relationship with his father and with a child who desperately needs to trust someone...A sweetly told tale of fatherhood and loss.' Kirkus Reviews

It was a butcher who saw the man stashing the kid in the car boot. He didn't really know what he'd seen. Detective Bart Moy, newly returned to the Australian country town where his father still lives, finds nothing. Nobody reports a boy missing. Still, he looks deeper into the butcher's story—after all, he had a son of his own once.

When the boy does turn up—silent, traumatized—things are no clearer. Who is he? Where did he come from and what happened to him?

A mystery, a meditation on fatherhood, and an examination of love and loss.

About the Author

Stephen Orr is the author of several published works of fiction and non-fiction. His novel Time's Long Ruin was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and longlisted for the Miles Franklin Award in 2011. He lives in Adelaide.