90s Australia fiction
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Australians Vietnam war
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Breece DJ Pancake
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contemporary Australian fiction
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escaped panther suburbia
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Lauren Groff Florida
Marilynne Robinson
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W G Sebald
Product details
- ISBN 9781788169608
- Weight: 288g
- Dimensions: 130 x 202mm
- Publication Date: 02 Dec 2021
- Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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A haunting and vivid novel which excavates an Australia rarely seen in literature.
New Year's Eve, 1990, small-town Australia. The mysterious death of the family dog pushes Jack, a Vietnam veteran suffering from severe PTSD, into one of his periodic vanishing acts. His eccentric brother Les remains next door, a gentle fixer-upper, whose loyalties are increasingly torn between Jack and his wife Evelyn. This time, Evelyn lets Jack stay gone. She is rapidly disappearing herself, lost in recollections of a vibrant youth as her eldest daughter Lani seems intent on misspending her own. And at the heart of it all is Lani's little sister Ru, who sees everything and yet is overlooked.
A Loving, Faithful Animal is an unforgettable interrogation of ruins, redemption and reasons why.
Josephine Rowe's A Loving, Faithful Animal was selected as a New York Times Editors' Choice and longlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award. Rowe has held fellowships with the University of Iowa and Stanford University, among others and has recently been named a 2021-2022 Cullman Center Fellow by the New York Public Library.
