The Low Road (novel)

The Low Road is a 2007 Ned Kelly Award-winning novel by the Australian author Chris Womersley.

The Low Road
First ediion
AuthorChris Womersley
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
GenreNovel
PublisherScribe Publications, Melbourne
Publication date
2007
Media typePrint Paperback
Pages280 pp
ISBN978-1-921215-47-6 (first edition, paperback)
OCLC174109815
Followed byBereft 

Awards

  • Victorian Premier's Literary Award, Prize for an Unpublished Manuscript by an Emerging Victorian Writer, 2006: shortlisted
  • Ned Kelly Awards for Crime Writing, Best First Novel, 2008: winner

Notes

  • Dedication: "For my mother, my brother and my sister, who know something of the roads I have travelled."
  • Epigraph: "A man's character is his fate." - Heraclitus, On the Universe.
  • Epigraph:
"And what the dead had no speech for, when living
They can tell you, being dead: the communication
Of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living." - T.S.Eliot, Little Gidding.

Reviews

  • "The Age"
  • "The Australian"
  • "Australian Crime Fiction Database"
  • "First Tuesday Book Club"
  • "Readings"


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