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Cargando... The Art of the Engine Driverpor Steven Carroll
   Ninguno Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro.   ) siri51 | Dec 5, 2012 |  The only thing I don't like so much about Carroll's trilogy (of which I've only read two so far) is that there seems to be almost a didactic element...as if this was an Australian history & culture lesson. ( ) oldblack | Sep 5, 2012 | Nothing much seems to happen in this luminous depiction of suburban Australia– but in this one night, there is a seismic shift in the lives of the people we meet walking to a neighbourhood engagement party. Carroll is without peer in shining a light on the everyday. This is an elegant and resonant tale of change and the loss of innocence – and one which meant so much to me because it could easily have been my neighbours, my parents … and me. (  )3  Jawin | Apr 9, 2009 | st.joseph | Oct 26, 2007 | sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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On a hot summer's night in the 1950s, the old and the new, diesel and steam, town and country all collide - and nobody will be left unaffected. As a passenger train leaves Spencer Street Station on its haul to Sydney, a family of three - Vic, Rita and their son Michael - are off to a party. George Bedser has invited the whole neighbourhood to celebrate the engagement of his daughter. Vic is an engine driver, with dreams of being like his hero Paddy Ryan and becoming the master of the smooth ride. As the neighbours walk to the party, we are drawn into the lives of a bully, a drunk, a restless girl and a young boy forced to grow up before he is ready. THE ART OF THE ENGINE DRIVER is a luminous and evocative tale of ordinary suburban lives, told with an extraordinary power. 'Subtle, true and profoundly touching' Le Monde 'Exquisitely crafted ... fresh and irresistible' Miles Franklin Literary Award Judges 'A little masterpiece' Hessische Allgemeine Shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award, 2002 Shortlisted for the Prix Femina Etranger, 2005. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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