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Sto caricando le informazioni... Where the Line Breaksdi Michael Burrows
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Ryan O'Neill, author of Their Brilliant Careers says Where the Line Breaks is an 'ambitious and original novel - a literary puzzle, an engrossing war story and a captivating tale of love and obsession.' The Unknown Digger is Australia's most famous WWI poet. But for decades, his identity has remained a mystery. Enter Matthew Denton - a PhD student at University College, London - who believes the unknown digger to be fact one of Australia's greatest war heroes- Lieutenant Alan Lewis VC of the 10th Light Horse. As the story of Lieutenant Lewis, fighting his way across Sinai, Palestine, Jordan and Syria unfolds, the question of what makes him a poet, a lover and a hero becomes a troubled one. Meanwhile, in the footnotes, scholar Matt Denton is fighting his own battles with romance and with academia as he attempts to rewrite literary history. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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(Supported by the Fogarty Foundation, the newly established Fogarty Literary Award is a biennial prize awarded to an unpublished manuscript by a Western Australian author aged between 18 and 35 for a work of fiction, narrative non-fiction or young adult fiction. The inaugural award in 2019 uncovered a number of engaging manuscripts and Fremantle Press offered publishing contracts to three additional authors: Michael Burrows for Where the Line Breaks, Emma Young for The Last Bookshop and Mel Hall for The Little Boat on Trusting Lane. The winner was The History of Mischief by Rebecca Higgie which is a YA novel.)
The design of the Where the Line Breaks is intriguing from the very start. It begins with two quotations, one from CJ Dennis (War aint no giddy garden feete) and the other from a poem called 'Out Back' by The Unknown Digger, (Hell, I've taken all the Turk can throw at me).
Then there's a short sequence, beginning Always the same dream. It recounts the horror of line after line of men stepping up and over the trench, men he joked and drank and swore and dreamed with.
And then, signalled by a change in page colour from off-white to grey, there's the cover page of a PhD dissertation. That's followed by the Abstract, setting out the PhD author's thesis, a Table of Contents, and an Introduction, with footnotes...
Ignore those footnotes at your peril. The bemused reader thinks she has stumbled into a PhD, until footnote 5, referencing a book called The Anzac Legend by Brian Bishop (which turns out not to exist) but continuing with...
The author is having a laugh, right? What's this childhood memory doing in a PhD thesis?
As in The Weaver Fish by fellow WA author Robert Edison, the footnotes are part of the narrative. There are in fact three narratives...
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