- Publisher: Tuskar Rock
- Year: 2022
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 176pp
- Illustrated: No
- Dimensions: 197x127mm
- Condition: New
- Weight: 0.1kg
- ISBN: 9781788169691
- Product code: 537659
A Loving, Faithful Animal
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Josephine Rowe’s lyrical novel traces the lives of a family in small-town Australia in the 1990s – Vietnam veteran Jack, who periodically vanishes; Evelyn, preoccupied with her youthful past and their eldest daughter’s misadventures; and young Ru, ‘who sees everything and yet is overlooked’.
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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.
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.
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Josephine Rowe’s lyrical novel traces the lives of a family in small-town Australia in the 1990s – Vietnam veteran Jack, who periodically vanishes; Evelyn, preoccupied with her youthful past and their eldest daughter’s misadventures; and young Ru, ‘who sees everything and yet is overlooked’.
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