Gone
Author(s): Jennifer Mills
After prison, there can be no straight road home. A young man is released from a Sydney prison, his hands empty, his identity gone. He catches a southbound train out of town, then hitchhikes west. He hasn't been home for fifteen years. For days 'Frank' rides the highway through an unforgiving landscape, surviving on what he finds and the kindness of strangers. As he edges closer to a home he struggles to remember, his boyhood looms. Out of the past, as memories surface, something is coming that will tear through his fragile hold on reality. Chilling, haunting, suspenseful, Gone is a crossing into one man's splintered world.
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Her novel will appeal to those, and they are many, who find naturalistic Ozlit just the ticket.' Weekend Australian 'Jennifer Mills' first novel is full of crafted and intricate detail …the tension of the emotional landscape propels the reading.' Adelaide Review '… the family relationships, the landscape, the importance of the pub and the community and most of all the central love story are described and evoked with great feeling and intensity.' Sydney Morning Herald
Jennifer Mills is the author of the novel The Diamond Anchor (UQP, 2009) and a chapbook of poems, Treading Earth (PressPress, 2009). She was the winner of the 2008 Marian Eldridge Award for Young Emerging Women Writers, the Pacific Region of the 2008–9 Commonwealth Short Story Competition, and the 2008 Northern Territory Literary Awards: Best Short Story. Her work has appeared in Hecate, Overland, Heat, the Griffith Review, and Best Australian Stories 2007, and she has a short story included in the Scribe New Australian Stories 2 anthology (pub: Feb 2011). Jennifer lives in Alice Springs.
General Fields
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- : University of Queensland Press
- : University of Queensland Press
- : 01 February 2011
- : 230mm x 152mm
- : Australia
- : 01 February 2011
- : books
Special Fields
- : Jennifer Mills
- : Paperback
- : 1
- : A823
- : 320