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ID: 649998
Title: Finley Confession
Author: George Watt
Narrator: George Watt, Gillian Bickley
Format: Unabridged
Length: 14:38:32
Language: English
Release date: 12-02-22
Publisher: Findaway Voices
Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Coming of Age
Summary:
In 2010 two septuagenarians reminisce on a balcony overlooking a former town and river valley inundated fifty years before by the damned waters of the massive Snowy Mountain Scheme. One of them, Ralph McDonald, feels compelled to retell dramatic events from his youth, ones related to things hidden in the depths of his conscience and in the waters themselves. An unlikely trio of late teenagersthe scion of Australian landed gentry, the brilliant son of middle-class Canberra academics, and the humble son of the local garage ownertogether spend uncomplicated school holidays until the catalytic arrival of two individuals: an intense half Aboriginal boy who inhabits his deceased grandmothers shack, and a singer from a distant world of glamour appearing for the winter season at the only major ski lodge in the surrounding national park.As the confession reveals, little by little, the trioseemingly the embodiment of the Australian egalitarian myth of mateshipis poisoned by snobbery, vindictiveness, complex sexualities, deception and, above all, interpersonal exploitation. Working through an amalgam of literary genres (bildungsroman, mystery tale, and the historic novel) THE FINLEY CONFESSION is a critical account of race, class and gender in contemporary Australia, but it also brings into question who owns any story and why.
Contact: [email protected]
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By hotaudiobook.comListen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free
ID: 649998
Title: Finley Confession
Author: George Watt
Narrator: George Watt, Gillian Bickley
Format: Unabridged
Length: 14:38:32
Language: English
Release date: 12-02-22
Publisher: Findaway Voices
Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Coming of Age
Summary:
In 2010 two septuagenarians reminisce on a balcony overlooking a former town and river valley inundated fifty years before by the damned waters of the massive Snowy Mountain Scheme. One of them, Ralph McDonald, feels compelled to retell dramatic events from his youth, ones related to things hidden in the depths of his conscience and in the waters themselves. An unlikely trio of late teenagersthe scion of Australian landed gentry, the brilliant son of middle-class Canberra academics, and the humble son of the local garage ownertogether spend uncomplicated school holidays until the catalytic arrival of two individuals: an intense half Aboriginal boy who inhabits his deceased grandmothers shack, and a singer from a distant world of glamour appearing for the winter season at the only major ski lodge in the surrounding national park.As the confession reveals, little by little, the trioseemingly the embodiment of the Australian egalitarian myth of mateshipis poisoned by snobbery, vindictiveness, complex sexualities, deception and, above all, interpersonal exploitation. Working through an amalgam of literary genres (bildungsroman, mystery tale, and the historic novel) THE FINLEY CONFESSION is a critical account of race, class and gender in contemporary Australia, but it also brings into question who owns any story and why.
Contact: [email protected]