The Low Road (novel)
The Low Road is a 2007 Ned Kelly Award-winning novel by the Australian author Chris Womersley.
First ediion | |
Author | Chris Womersley |
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Country | Australia |
Language | English |
Genre | Novel |
Publisher | Scribe Publications, Melbourne |
Publication date | 2007 |
Media type | Print Paperback |
Pages | 280 pp |
ISBN | 978-1-921215-47-6 (first edition, paperback) |
OCLC | 174109815 |
Followed by | Bereft |
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- Victorian Premier's Literary Award, Prize for an Unpublished Manuscript by an Emerging Victorian Writer, 2006: shortlisted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
gollark: ++remind 1m andrew = dead
gollark: ++remind 2d11m or merely to invoke humor, or perhaps simply for the joy of constructing a novel paradigm of programming.
gollark: ++remind 2d8m for general, practical use in, for example, the software industry, or more generally the production of software which satisfies some kind of user need, and instead is designed purely for recreational purposes, whether in order to serve as a demonstration for an argument of some form [cont]
gollark: Will do, hold on.
gollark: ++remind 2d3m produce the specification for a form of language designed for providing instructions to computational devices (not necessary limited to real or practical computational hardware) and yet which is not suitable and/or intended [cont]
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