Gunshot Road
by Adrian Hyland
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- Paperback
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Footscray, Vic: Text Publishing, 2010. Used. Emily Tempest is small, black, as snaky as a taipan's tooth and is the woman least likely ever to embark on a career in policing. But her old mate Superintendent Tom MacGillivray has persuaded her to sign on as the Aboriginal Community Police Officer for the outback (not to mention throwback) township of Bluebush. Then Tom is hospitalised and Emily finds herself working for a new bloke instead: an east-coast ring-in, a martinet called Cockburn. Being allergic both to authority and to keeping her big mouth shut, Emily is immediately at odds with the new boss. And the death at the Green Swamp Well Roadhouse only complicates things. Cockburn thinks it's a simple case of two old drunks and a hammer. Emily's not convinced. Adrian Hyland takes us to the outback???a place we think we know, and have mostly never seen. Introducing us to the people who belong there???a different people, as wise, foolish and fallible as the rest of us. And spinning for us a veil of wit and lyrical beauty through which we can see them truly.
Synopsis
Adrian Hyland won Australia’s 2007 Ned Kelly Award for Best First Novel for Moonlight Downs , published in Australia as Diamond Dove , which was also a Book Sense Notable book. He spent many years in the Northern Territory living and working among the indigenous people. He now teaches at La Trobe University and lives in Melbourne.
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- Title
- Gunshot Road
- Author
- Adrian Hyland
- Book Condition
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- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Text Publishing
- Place of Publication
- Footscray, Vic
- Date Published
- 2010
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- 0.00 lbs
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