Wedding Bush Road: A Novel
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| Rating | : | 4.97 (559 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1640090142 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-11-06 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Estranged from his parents, Daniel is hesitant to revisit their history: long divorced, his mother still maintains the farm having put out her cheating, rakish husband, and even in these later years her anger burns brightly.Daniel arrives at the farm in the heat of his parents’ conflict with Sharen, an alluring tenant and ex-lover of his father now perched on family land. A young lawyer in Los Angeles is called back to his family's farm in rural Australia and plunged into a complex struggle between past and present, town and country, and the secrets that haunt them all.When he learns of his mother’s ailing health, Daniel Rawson must leave Los Angeles and travel half a world away to the family’s horse farm on Wedding Bush Road, one hundred miles outside of Melbourne. Sharen and her unstable son Re
Poetic images swirl off the page Wedding Bush Road envelopes us in a strange world where nothing can be taken for granted. This thriller, resonating with deep emotion, is one of the great finds in Australian literature. This is the masterful feat achieved here in these pages."Mary Rakow, author of This Is Why I CameHere’s an Australia so tactile that the page itself begins to feel textured. Each step reveals a new perspective on the characters’ humanity and, at times, their brutality.” Manil SuriA truly amazing
David Francis's Best Book Yet! Rita Williams One of humanity’s paradoxes—one that challenges us all, no matter how much therapy, self-help, religion we employ—is how the influence of our history persists, how its power awaits our confrontation of who we are at our deepest level. While Australian expatriate Daniel Rawson has established a brilliant, elegant persona in the United States. But upon his return to the land of his birth, and his tiny, sava. Lush Literary Journey "Down Under" David Francis' Wedding Bush Road is a suspenseful sojourn from the glittery facades of LA to the gritty untamed wilds of Australia, as young attorney Daniel is beckoned home by his cloying mother for the first time in years and finds himself pulled between the two worlds. But beneath the lush descriptions and nostalgia is a deeper universal subtext about the pull "downward" and what it takes to resist base cravings and ris. "David Francis has a singular, sensual and clear voice" according to just thinking. David Francis has a singular, sensual and clear voice. I picked up Wedding Bush Road yesterday morning, and I fell right in. Had to stop reading in order to do my own writing and then to teach, but I started again in the evening and all through the night I woke to read more, finishing about David Francis has a singular, sensual and clear voice David Francis has a singular, sensual and clear voice. I picked up Wedding Bush Road yesterday morning, and I fell right in. Had to stop reading in order to do my own writing and then to teach, but I started again in the evening and all through the night I woke to read more, finishing about 3 am. I found it a tender, gutsy, authentic, exciting, confusing and then resolved. What gorgeous images conveyed in moving patterns o. am. I found it a tender, gutsy, authentic, exciting, confusing and then resolved. What gorgeous images conveyed in moving patterns o