- Australia, fiction, Fiction, romance, general, Fiction, Suburban life
One summer morning in 1970, Peter van Rijn, proprietor of the television and wireless shop, pronounces his Melbourne suburb one hundred years old. That same morning, Rita is awakened by a dream of her husband's snores, yet it is years since Vic moved north.
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Earnest, grave, contemplative and classical in form.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Steven Carroll
- First published
- 2007
- Pages
- 327
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd, Penguin Random House
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780732278366
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