Ten-year-old Chook knows something is wrong when his father, Kev, bundles him into the car in the middle of the night, leaving their friend Max white-faced, silent and covered in blood. The fast-paced and moving story of a man who has lived outside the laws of society, the tough choices his son is forced to make, and the power and price of love.
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Ten-year-old Chook knows something is wrong when his father, Kev, bundles him into the car in the middle of the night, leaving their friend Max white-faced, silent and covered in blood. The fast-paced and moving story of a man who has lived outside the laws of society, the tough choices his son is forced to make, and the power and price of love.
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Are some bonds meant to be broken?The award-winning novel, now a major motion picture starring Hugo Weaving
ten-year-old Chook knows something is wrong when his father, Kev, bundles him into the car in the middle of the night, leaving their friend Max white-faced, silent and covered in blood.As the two head for Broken Hill, in the hope of hiding out with one of Kev's old girlfriends, the fierce bond between father and son is tested by Chook's memories of previous hasty exits. But the good times fast recede as they face life on the run.After finding refuge in an old mosque, Kev heads off for supplies. He returns after a disastrous night in the town and finds his son in the company of a young woman who has come to the mosque to pray. From here a bad situation suddenly gets a whole lot worse ...Last Ride is the fast-paced and profoundly moving story of a man who has lived defiantly outside the laws of society, the tough choices his son is forced to make, and the power and price of love.'starts hard and fast and keeps going, tackling bends without losing control ... impressive' Weekend Australian'A poignant and sometimes chilling story of displacement, violence and the redemptive power of love. Not one false note.' Jean BedfordWinner, University of technology, Sydney Award for New Writing, New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, 2005Longlisted, Miles Franklin Literary Award, 2005Winner, HarperCollins Varuna Awards for Manuscript Development, 2002
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Denise Young was born in Sydney, Australia, though she spent some eighteen years living in London, Wellington, Adelaide and Perth. Her first novel, LAST RIDE, was published by HarperCollins in 2004, after winning a Varuna/HarperCollins Award in 2002. The novel won the NSW Premier's Prize for a First Novel in 2005, was longlisted for the Miles Franklin Award in the same year and was shortlisted for the SA Festival Awards in 2006. A film of the book, with film script by Mac Gudgeon and starring Hugo Weaving, will be released in 2009. Denise lives in Sydney with her husband Paul, with whom she has three grown-up children.
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