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The Australia stories : a novel / by Todd James Pierce
Bib ID 3095089
Format BookBook
Author
Pierce, Todd James, 1965-
 
Description San Francisco, Calif. : MacAdam/Cage Pub., c2003. 
223 p. ; 19 cm. 
ISBN 1931561281 (Hardcover : alk. paper)  1931561281 (alk. paper) 
Summary

"Haunted by the deaths of his mother and grandmother, both of whom perished while hiking through Australia's Blue Mountains, Sam Browne returns to the country of his mother's birth in search of his family's history and a way to make a place for himself within it." "By reading his grandmother's memoirs, Sam begins to connect to his family's ancestral home and understand the reasons that she and her daughter after her were so drawn to the Australian landscape and the mystery found there."--BOOK JACKET.

Full contents
  • Coachman's paddock
  • The Australia stories
  • A Christmas memory
  • Smoke
  • The letter
  • Love
  • The woman of stone.
 
Subjects Missing persons - Fiction.  |  Grandmothers - Fiction.  |  Mothers - Fiction.  |  Hiking - Fiction.  |  Blue Mountains (N.S.W. : Mountains) - Fiction.  |  Australia - Fiction.
Form/genre Psychological fiction.

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