I predicted in that last post two days ago that Steve Carroll would win the Miles Franklin Award and I have just discovered that he did.
*Does Grace's "I told you so" dance from Will & Grace*
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This photo was taken looking south from a crossroads in the middle of Yorke Peninsula, South Australia, which is the bit that looks like a boot: not the elegant heeled boot of Italy, but a humble foursquare working boot. About 300 metres down the road on the left is the gate to the home paddock of the house I grew up in, and another 5 km or so after that, my home town of Curramulka. This is the landscape I was talking about in my story 'Limestone', in North of the Moonlight Sonata.
The country spread away around them to the horizon in curved layers of pastel colours that were too quiet and weird to have names, gently arched, bands of colour ... This country made you work for the bread of beauty. You had to look and strain and think and stretch your mind to the horizon.
The country spread away around them to the horizon in curved layers of pastel colours that were too quiet and weird to have names, gently arched, bands of colour ... This country made you work for the bread of beauty. You had to look and strain and think and stretch your mind to the horizon.
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4 comments:
Well done you! I've never read any Steve Carroll. I'm glad it's the last in a trilogy. I like the thought of three books to catch up on. I'm reading Joan London's 'The Good Parents' at the moment and next in line is 'Bird' by Sophie Cunningham. An embarrassment of riches!
PC, you could take a leaf out of Beth Driscoll's book and do some betting on this prize. You could indeed make a fortune...
Yep, that was what I meant. I don't know who would take my bets, though -- what does Beth do?
sorry - very delayed response! For the Booker I bet at a William Hill outlet in the UK last year. The actual money side of it is quite disorienting. Not sure what would have happened if I'd won since I'd skipped home by then!
There are online options for some international prizes but I don't understand how they work with credit cards etc...I'm a bit scared...that way disaster lies. Maybe we should try it as a social experiment though?
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