Closer to Stone

Fiction & Literature, Literary
Cover of the book Closer to Stone by Simon Cleary, University of Queensland Press
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Author: Simon Cleary ISBN: 9780702247668
Publisher: University of Queensland Press Publication: February 27, 2012
Imprint: University of Queensland Press Language: English
Author: Simon Cleary
ISBN: 9780702247668
Publisher: University of Queensland Press
Publication: February 27, 2012
Imprint: University of Queensland Press
Language: English

See the dots, boy. Can you see them? They’re not even towns, most of them. They're settlements, handfuls of human beings huddled together in the sand. Know this about your brother: he went out into that desert and he did not come back.

There has never been a deserter in Bas Adams' family – from the Somme to Vietnam. So when his brother, Jack, is reported missing from his peacekeeping contingent in Western Sahara, Bas knows he must be found. Their father demands it.

From Queensland's Lockyer Valley to the mountains of southern Algeria, Bas follows Jack's trail deep into the Sahara Desert, and into a world apart.

Nothing could prepare him for what he finds.

PRAISE FOR SIMON CLEARY

'A brave and impressive debut' David Malouf

'Assured and unsettling' Canberra Times

'A poignant tale' Age

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See the dots, boy. Can you see them? They’re not even towns, most of them. They're settlements, handfuls of human beings huddled together in the sand. Know this about your brother: he went out into that desert and he did not come back.

There has never been a deserter in Bas Adams' family – from the Somme to Vietnam. So when his brother, Jack, is reported missing from his peacekeeping contingent in Western Sahara, Bas knows he must be found. Their father demands it.

From Queensland's Lockyer Valley to the mountains of southern Algeria, Bas follows Jack's trail deep into the Sahara Desert, and into a world apart.

Nothing could prepare him for what he finds.

PRAISE FOR SIMON CLEARY

'A brave and impressive debut' David Malouf

'Assured and unsettling' Canberra Times

'A poignant tale' Age

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