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FLAMES
A young man named Levi McAllister decides to build a coffin for his twenty-three-year-old sister, Charlottewho promptly runs for her life. A water rat swims upriver in quest of the cloud god. A fisherman named Karl hunts for tuna in partnership with a seal. And a father takes form from fire.
The answers to these riddles are to be found in this tale of grief and love and the bonds of family, tracing a journey across the southern island that takes us full circle.
Flames sings out with joy and sadness. Utterly original in conception, spellbinding in its descriptions of nature and its celebration of the power of language, it announces the arrival of a thrilling new voice in contemporary fiction.
Robbie Arnott was born in Launceston in 1989. He is a sixth-generation Tasmanian who now lives in Hobart where his day job is to write advertising copy. He won the Scribe Nonfiction Prize in 2014 and the Tasmanian Young Writer's Fellowship in 2015.
The answers to these riddles are to be found in this tale of grief and love and the bonds of family, tracing a journey across the southern island that takes us full circle.
Flames sings out with joy and sadness. Utterly original in conception, spellbinding in its descriptions of nature and its celebration of the power of language, it announces the arrival of a thrilling new voice in contemporary fiction.
Robbie Arnott was born in Launceston in 1989. He is a sixth-generation Tasmanian who now lives in Hobart where his day job is to write advertising copy. He won the Scribe Nonfiction Prize in 2014 and the Tasmanian Young Writer's Fellowship in 2015.
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Published 2018-05-01 by Text Publishing |