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1988Andrew McGahan

1988

1995314 pages
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Gordon wants out. A failed writer and "bottleshop boy," he wants to escape from his overcrowded house, from Brisbane, from the bicentennial, from everything. He stumbles into Wayne, who has connections and the promise of work, and they head north. Without a map. Their destination: Cape Don, a weather station on a secluded peninsula, where they hope to find solitude and artistic inspiration. What they don't realize is that they'll be stuck in a run-down shack amid a crocodile-infested swamp, on the most isolated point of the Australian continent, with only a few unimpressed locals for company.…

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6 editions
  • Audiobook · English · 2019
    Bolinda Audio · 9780655605850
  • Paperback · English · 1998
    St. Martin's Griffin · 314 pages · 9780312180324
  • Paperback · English · 1996
    St. Martin's Griffin · 320 pages · 9780312292126
  • Other · English · 2005
    Allen & Unwin · 324 pages · 9781741147735
  • Other · English · 1997
    St. Martin's Press · 314 pages · 9780312150433
  • Other · English · 1995
    Allen & Unwin · 314 pages · 9781863739153
FictionYoung menMentally illArtistsAuthorsFiction, humorousAustralia, fictionArtists, fiction