
The Sunken Road
$30.83
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
4 February 2020
Summary
The literary master work by award-winning Australian crime writer Garry Disher.
At the height of the Great Depression, with farmers walking off the land and the city’s creeks lined with kerosene-tin shanties, a young mother is taken by a shark in the shallows at Henley Beach. Her grieving husband flees north with his baby son to the town of Pandowie, far from the treacherous ocean. In time, the boy will have a daughter: the wilful auburn-haired Anna Tolley.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781922268532 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1922268534 |
| Author: | Garry Disher |
| Publisher: | Text Publishing |
| Imprint: | The Text Publishing Company |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 4 February 2020 |
| Weight: | 342g |
| Dimensions: | 28mm x 154mm x 265mm |

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Critics Review
‘Astoundingly original’
‘Astoundingly original’ * The Mail on Sunday *
‘A modern classic’ * Options *
‘One of the most original, vibrant, compelling Australian novels’ * Sydney Morning Herald *
‘One of the original and best Australian rural noirs.’ * Australian *
Garry Disher
Garry Disher has published sixty titles across multiple genres. With a growing international reputation for his best-selling crime novels, he has won four German and three Australian awards for best crime novel of the year, and been longlisted twice for a British CWA Dagger award. In 2018 he received the Ned Kelly Lifetime Achievement Award.
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