Spirit of Progess

Steven Carroll (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

376 Seiten

2015
HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-7322-9119-8 (ISBN)

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The thing that makes you, it never goes. A sleek high-speed train glides silently through the French countryside, bearing Michael, an Australian writer, and his travelling world of memory and speculation. Melbourne, 1946, calls to him: the pressure cooker of the city during World War II has produced a small creative miracle, and at this pivotal moment the lives of his newly married parents, a group of restless artists, a proud old woman with a tent for a home, a journalist, a gallery owner, a farmer and a factory developer irrevocably intersect. And all the while the Spirit of Progress, the locomotive of the new age, roars through their lives like time's arrow, pointing to the future and the post-war world only some of them will enter. 'If Graham Greene can have the phrase 'Greene-land' used to celebrate his fictional world, I hope Steven Carroll gets recognition for the Australia he records. Perhaps it should be called 'Carroll-land' Bookseller + Publisher

Steven Carroll is the multi-award winning author of sixteen novels, including A World of Other People (2013), which was the joint winner of the Prime Minister's Literary Award, and The Time We Have Taken (2007), which was the winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize for the Southeast Asia and Pacific Region and the Miles Franklin Award in 2008. The Art of the Engine Driver was shortlisted for France's Prix Femina literary award for Best Foreign Novel in 2005. Forever Young (2015) was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Award and the Prime Minister's Literary Award in 2016. A New England Affair (2017) was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Award in 2018 and The Year of the Beast (2019) was longlisted for the 2020 Voss Literary Prize. Goodnight, Vivienne, Goodnight was longlisted for the 2022 ARA Historical Novel Prize and for the 2023 Voss Literary Prize. His previous novel, Death of a Foreign Gentleman (2024), was the first in a series of postwar literary crime novels featuring Detective Sergeant Stephen Minter. Steven lives in Melbourne with his partner, the author Fiona Capp, and their son.

Reihe/Serie	Glenroy
Verlagsort	New South Wales
Sprache	englisch
Maße	129 x 198 mm
Gewicht	256 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
ISBN-10	0-7322-9119-4 / 0732291194
ISBN-13	978-0-7322-9119-8 / 9780732291198
Zustand	Neuware