Courtney Collins
Auteur de The Untold
A propos de l'auteur
Courtney Collins was awarded a 2015 Sydney Myer Creative Fellowship worth $160,000 over two years. Collins is the author of The Burial (A&U), which was shortlisted for the Vogel award in 2009 and following publication was shortlisted for a number of awards, including the NSW Premier¿s Award for afficher plus Fiction and the Stella Prize. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
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- Œuvres
- 1
- Membres
- 183
- Popularité
- #118,259
- Évaluation
- 4.1
- Critiques
- 26
- ISBN
- 15
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- 3
Jessie is assigned to work for Fitz after she finishes a jail term for horse rustling. Her new freedom soon becomes its own kind of hell and she is eventually forced to take drastic action to escape to the mountains. She is pursued by Aboriginal tracker Jack Brown and the heroin-addicted Sergeant Barlow and then a host of bloodthirsty bounty hunters.
I found myself caught up with the action and willing Jessie to survive. The writing was vivid but lyrical and almost surreal. It felt a little like watching a Baz Luhrmann movie. Initially I felt very uncomfortable with the dead baby narrator but I became accustomed to it. I would be interested to read another Courtney Collins book.… (plus d'informations)