The Bay Of Contented Men

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Picador
Publisher Place: Sydney
Publisher Year: 1996
Edition: Reprint

Description: 212 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: The Bay Of Contented Men ranges in location from east to west coast Australia, to the United States, Japan and Hong Kong. This is the neighbourhood of edgy suburbanite Australians whose desires and misadventures are conjured here into intriguing fictions. Robert Drewe's characters face the confrontations Librarian's Note: an alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here.The Bay Of Contented Men ranges in location from east to west coast Australia, to the United States, Japan and Hong Kong. This is the neighbourhood of edgy suburbanite Australians whose desires and misadventures are conjured here into intriguing fictions. Robert Drewe's characters face the confrontations of gender, race and generations with an ironic desperation born of love, lust and wistful memory.ContentsRadiant HeatMacheteThe First MotelMandalayRiver WaterThe Lawyers of AfricaThe Needle 'Story'All the BoysSisterLife of a BarbarianThe Hammett SpielThe Bay of Contented Men

ISBN: 9780330270922