Geoffrey McGeachin
Autore di The Diggers Rest Hotel
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Fonte dell'immagine: abc.net.au
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Opere di Geoffrey McGeachin
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Informazioni generali
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- Australia
- Luogo di nascita
- Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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This is the second of the Charlie Berlin trilogy and lacks nothing in quality, style, or pace.
Another poignant cameo of Oz, awash with growing pains and very white. I like the progression of the main character as he tries to move on from his wartime experiences.
Full of brutality but managed in a very Australian way.
Gripping, can'y wait fo the next one.
Another poignant cameo of Oz, awash with growing pains and very white. I like the progression of the main character as he tries to move on from his wartime experiences.
Full of brutality but managed in a very Australian way.
Gripping, can'y wait fo the next one.
The last one in the series and I'm sorry there's not more.
Having read so much mediocre drivel under the guise of "literature", I no longer care what so called genre a book is. All I care about is the quality of the reading experience. If you look down on a book because it is popular or so called "low brow" then you are a shallow muppet indeed.
Sure, this is a crime novel but you will not find tighter writing in many other books, get over yourself already!
Having read so much mediocre drivel under the guise of "literature", I no longer care what so called genre a book is. All I care about is the quality of the reading experience. If you look down on a book because it is popular or so called "low brow" then you are a shallow muppet indeed.
Sure, this is a crime novel but you will not find tighter writing in many other books, get over yourself already!
This is a post WW II novel and shows the depression that followed the great war. I found it interesting and reminded me of books of other Austrailian authors.
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 8
- Utenti
- 253
- Popolarità
- #90,475
- Voto
- 4.0
- Recensioni
- 37
- ISBN
- 75
Have you read The Shepherds Hut yet?
Set in the late 40's around Melbourne, a country full of men back from the war, almost none of them untouched by what they experienced, trying to fit back in. And Australia with its endemic crime, corruption, and violence, what could possibly go wrong?
A crime procedural of the highest order. A sympathetic character in an unsympathetic land but nothing too soft, that's left to the dame!
It's not a gipping story as in the way of a suspense/thriller but it is a compelling story. Very evocative, you could smell the stale sweat on unwashed bodies, feel the bruises when you moved and craved that cigarette.
I think this is why I have gotten so enamoured of Australian authors. The land becomes a major character in all their novels, a brooding silence in the background, something that shapes every person whether they like it, know it, or not. They become the voice of the land is a weird but authentic way.
I've got the second and third in this series and am taking my time, savouring them.… (altro)