Miscarriages - Heston, Colin
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In tis coming of age story, teen Chooka grows up in the weird world of 1950s Aussie pub life. When his alcoholic dad dies, he searches for his identity, and that of his shadowy underage girlfriend, Iris. Captivated by the pub's many crazy customers and their raucous stories, Chooka becomes a boozer just like them. But Iris, after a miscarriage, disappears and Chooka sets out on a search that takes him to foreign places including Melbourne university and Vietnam. The search ends in a Melbourne pub, where they start over, but this time there's a different ending. "…a brilliant, unforgettable…mehr

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In tis coming of age story, teen Chooka grows up in the weird world of 1950s Aussie pub life. When his alcoholic dad dies, he searches for his identity, and that of his shadowy underage girlfriend, Iris. Captivated by the pub's many crazy customers and their raucous stories, Chooka becomes a boozer just like them. But Iris, after a miscarriage, disappears and Chooka sets out on a search that takes him to foreign places including Melbourne university and Vietnam. The search ends in a Melbourne pub, where they start over, but this time there's a different ending. "…a brilliant, unforgettable book about real people…a sensitive, touching and poignant story." - Reader's favourite
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Colin Heston is the pen name of a criminologist of international repute. He has written nonfiction books on the history of punishment and torture, edited a four volume encyclopedia on Crime and Punishment around the World, and regularly contributes to a variety of criminology and criminal justice periodicals. His forthcoming fiction includes, Holy Water a satirical farce, about a Mexican drug lord who corners the market in Holy Water, and MONA a collection of Australian short stories, both available in 2020. He is currently putting the finishing touches to his next nonfiction book, Civilization and Barbarism, for release by SUNY Press, 2020.