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Western Australia, the wheatbelt. Lew McLeod has been travelling and working with Painter Hayes since he was a boy. Shearing, charcoal burning - whatever comes. Painter made him his first pair of shoes. It's a hard and uncertain life but it's the only one he knows.But Lew's a grown man now. And with this latest job, shearing for John Drysdale and his daughter Clara, everything will change.Stephen Daisley writes in lucid, rippling prose of how things work, and why; of the profound satisfaction in hard work done with care, of love and friendship and the damage that both contain. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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As Daisley tells Lew's story, he recounts a parallel story of a pregnant dingo bitch on the run from shooters, trying to find a safe place to whelp, with an injured male in tow. I found these chapters the best part of the novel: Daisley completely inhabits the animal, capturing its instincts and the landscape through its eyes.
If not for this second thread, this novel could have been like so many other outback stories, but Daisley has written something remarkable here. He draws his characters well, especially Painter and Abraham, although his other main characters are less original. Still, his eye for the Australian landscape and for the behaviour of the animals within it is unerring, and he describes these with great sensibility. ( )