LIBROS DEL AUTOR: stephen orr

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  • Shining Like The Sun
    Stephen Orr
    Wilf Healy lives in the wheatbelt town of Selwyn, works in Monk’s Irish pub, delivers letters, drives the school bus, holds the place together. But he’s had enough, wants to retire - to forget his nephew Connor, at war with the world, his brother Brian, visiting from America, his niece Orla, sick with blood cancer. Although he plans, and tries, he can’t leave. Something is hold...
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    33,32 €

  • The Boy in Time
    Stephen Orr
    A plane in the distance, artillery, his father waiting, and the boy wonders what to do. As with every story in this collection, the child born into a world he can’t comprehend, but stands waiting for answers, overcome with possibilities. The Boy in Time charts this child’s progress from the Outer Hebrides to a Mongolian desert, from war to kidnapping, a Midwestern American nigh...
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    22,35 €

  • Sincerely, Ethel Malley
    Stephen Orr
    In the darkest days of World War II, Ethel Malley lives a quiet life on Dalmar Street, Croydon. One day she finds a collection of poems written by her late (and secretive) brother, Ern. She sends them to Max Harris, co-editor of modernist magazine Angry Penguins. He reads them and declares Ern an undiscovered genius. Determined to help publish the poems, Ethel moves in with Max...
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    38,55 €

  • This Excellent Machine
    Stephen Orr
    Clem Whelan's got a problem: trapped in the suburbs in the Sunnyboy summer of 1984 he has to decide what to do with his life. Matriculation? He's more than able, but not remotely interested. Become a writer? His failed lawyer neighbour Peter encourages him, but maybe it's just another dead end? To make sense of the world, Clem uses his telescope to spy on his neighb...
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    26,86 €

  • The Fierce Country
    Stephen Orr
    The Fierce Country holds no malice, but neither pity. It just sits, and bakes, and waits. We do the rest. We provoke it when we mine above its aquifers. Weaken it, and ourselves, when we leave mountains of asbestos to blow away in the wind. Misunderstand it when we see it as nothing more than a resource. Resent it when it takes our children. The Fierce Country, perhaps, is in o...
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    33,72 €

  • Incredible Floridas
    Stephen Orr
    As Hitler's war looms, famous Australian artist Roland Griffin returns home from London with his family to live a simple life of shared plums and low-cut lawns in the suburbs.In the yard: a daughter, and a son, Hal, growing up with a preoccupied father who is always out in his shed stretching canvases and painting outback pubs. An isolated man obsessed with other people and...
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    29,73 €

  • The Delight of Being . . .
    Stephen Orr Manning
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    23,61 €

  • The Hands
    Stephen Orr
    He didn't look like he could jump a bull, but she knew he could. It was all in the hands, he'd often explain. The will. The bloody mindedness.On a cattle station that stretches beyond the horizon, seven people are trapped by their history and the need to make a living. Trevor Wilkie, the good father, holds it all together, promising his sons a future he no longer believ...
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    26,21 €

  • Camera of the Mind
    Stephen Orr Manning
    Blues and birdsongflamenco and flowing riversrain and restless feetstorms and Southern 'patois'The poems of a young Southern boy who joined the military, travelled the world, got an education, made a whole big bunch of friends, came home to the woods and walks there often, happily watching birds and watching the world pass by, occasionally saying a few words at it, with a laugh...
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    8,81 €