When Colts Ran

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Vintage (australia)
Publisher Place: Milsons Point
Publisher Year: 2010
Edition: First Edition

Description: 346 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award and the Prime Minister s Prize for Literature In this sweeping epic of friendship, toil, hope and failed promise, multi-award-winning author Roger McDonald follows the story of Kingsley Colts as he chases the ghost of himself through the decades, and in and out of the lives and affections of the citizens of The Isabel, a slice of Australia scattered with prospectors, artists, no-hopers and visionaries. Against this spacious backdrop of sheep stations, timeless landscapes and the Five Alls pub, men play out their fates, conduct their rivalries and hope for the best. Major Dunc Buckler, misplaced genius and authentic ratbag, scours the country for machinery in a World War that will never find him. Wayne Hovell, slave to moral duty, carries the physical and emotional scars of Coltss early rebellion, but also finds himself the keeper of his redemption. Normie Powell, son of a rugby-playing minister, finds his own mysticism as a naturalist, while warm-hearted stock dealer Alan Hooke longs for understanding in a house full of women. They are men shaped by the obligations and expectations of a previous generation, all striving

ISBN: 9781864710410