A better place / Stephen Daisley
- Bib ID:
- 10002797
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Daisley, Stephen, 1955-, author
- Online Access:
- National edeposit: Onsite at National Library of Australia
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- Access Conditions:
- National edeposit: Available onsite at national, state and territory libraries
- Description:
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- Melbourne : Text Publishing Company, 2023
- Melbourne, Victoria : The Text Publishing Company, 2023
- ©2023
- 1 online resource (224 pages)
- File Characteristics:
- text file EPUB eBook 4.6MB
- ISBN:
- 9781922459978
- Summary:
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The old people in the district would often say that Roy was not quite the same after he come back. There was a brother. A twin brother, Tony. Tony Mitchell, different boy but a good rugby player. Bit of a mental case, they said, but Roy would have none of it. He always stayed close to Tony when they were growing up. They both went off to fight, must have been 1940. Only the one come back, though. Crete, they thought. We lost Tony over there. From Stephen Daisley, winner of the Prime Minister's Award for Traitor and the NZ Ockham Prize for Coming Rain, a new novel about brothers at war. Beautifully written, brutal, tender and visceral, A Better Place is about love in its many forms. Stephen Daisley was born in 1955 and grew up in the North Island of New Zealand. He has worked on sheep and cattle stations, on oil and gas construction sites and as a truck driver, among many other jobs. His first novel, Traitor, won the 2011 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Fiction. Coming Rain won the Ockham Prize in 2015. Stephen lives in Western Australia. 'Daisley's prose possesses a shimmering, allusive beauty.' Weekend Australian 'Stephen Daisley writes with the potent economy of a short-story writer, and he triumphs with this visceral account that will linger in your mind long after the last page.' North & South.
- Full contents:
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- Intro
- TEXT LOGO PAGE
- ABOUT THE BOOK
- TITLE PAGE
- CONTENTS
- DEDICATION
- DISCLAIMER
- EPIGRAPHS
- CHAPTER 1
- CHAPTER 2
- CHAPTER 3
- CRETE 1941
- CHAPTER 5
- CHAPTER 6
- CHAPTER 7
- CHAPTER 8
- CHAPTER 9
- CHAPTER 10
- CHAPTER 11
- CHAPTER 12
- CHAPTER 13
- CHAPTER 14
- CHAPTER 15
- CHAPTER 16
- CHAPTER 17
- CHAPTER 18
- CHAPTER 19
- CHAPTER 20
- CHAPTER 21
- CHAPTER 22
- CHAPTER 23
- CHAPTER 24
- CHAPTER 25
- CHAPTER 26
- CHAPTER 27
- CHAPTER 28
- CHAPTER 29
- CHAPTER 30
- CHAPTER 31
- CENTRAL NORTH ISLAND. AOTEAROA. NEW ZEALAND, 1946.
- CHAPTER 33
- CHAPTER 34
- CHAPTER 35
- CHAPTER 36
- CHAPTER 37
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
- PRAISE
- COPYRIGHT PAGE
- NEW MARKETING PAGE.
- Notes:
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- Description based upon print version of record.
- General.
- Subject:
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- Amphibious warfare -- Fiction
- Australian fiction
- Brothers -- Fiction
- Brothers -- New Zealand -- Fiction
- Huts -- Fiction
- Soldiers -- Fiction
- Twins -- Death -- Fiction
- Veterans -- Fiction
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction
- Amphibious warfare
- Fiction - General
- Fiction / Historical / World War Ii
- Historical fiction
- Huts
- Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
- Modern & contemporary fiction
- Second World War fiction
- Soldiers
- Veterans
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- Other authors/contributors:
- Text Publishing
- Copyright:
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