Leon Saunders

The Gaze of Dogs (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Why have burning dogs come from the past to haunt Ned Sheridan? What is their connection to the man who delivered him to St Andrew's Hostel on the day "all memory began"? Do the answers lie in the alien world of a Queensland sapphire mining field 2,000 miles away, peopled by pub bombers, poddy dodgers, and fading bush boxers?

In the tragi-comic spirit of Lawson, Paterson and the early bush balladeers of outback Australia, the story of Ned's search for identity unfolds against a backdrop of natural beauty and elemental catastrophe. Through its richly evoked sense of place, its finely drawn characters and unfailing humanity, The Gaze of Dogs' depiction of the small miners' struggle against the greed of the machinery men paints a rare picture of a forgotten part of Australia's history in the 1970s.

A quest and a mystery that takes us deep into the Anakie sapphire mines of Central Queensland, and the gritty lives of ex boxers, immigrants, and the resilient Kairi people. Here, with its kindness and treachery, naked loyalty and cold malice, is one writer's hard-earned truth.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Valentine Press
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. März 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780994515766
• Artikelnr.: 55041833

Autorenporträt

Leon Saunders' writing career began with the publication of Shadow People, a photo/essay on Sydney's 'Skid Row'. He followed this with a long career as a television scriptwriter on shows such as Home and Away, Carson's Law, Flying Doctors, A Country Practice and the top rating mini-series Cyclone Tracy. He has won four Australian Writers Guild 'Awgie' awards, a 'Penguin' from the Television Society of Australia and a Media Peace Award from the United Nations Association. He scripted the feature-length documentary, With Prejudice, on the infamous 'Hilton bombing' trial. In 1995 he won the 'Suspended Sentence' award through the James Joyce Foundation, earning him an eight weeks residency at Trinity College, Dublin. Trapper, the winning entry for the 'Sentence' award, was the catalyst for his shift from script writing to the prose fiction form. The Gaze of Dogs is his first novel.