Hiding place / Dave Goddard.
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TextPublisher: Bloomington, IN Balboa Press, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Description: x, 361 pages ; 23 cmContent type: still image | text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781452508986 (pbk.); 1452508984 (pbk.)Subject(s): Australia -- Fiction | Australia -- Central Australia | Northern Territory -- Alice Springs | Australia, Central -- Fiction | Alice Springs (N.T.) -- FictionGenre/Form: Fiction. DDC classification: 823.4 Summary: MODERN & CONTEMPORARY FICTION (POST C 1945). "Here's some pidgin, Mick," and Garrick spoke rapidly. "Who been dat pella? Where him been prom? You been subby him? Him been talk punny way, ay? Him been kardiya bloke." "What?" Mick shook his head quickly. "I said, 'who is that man? Where is he from? Do you know him? Doesn't he talk in a strange way? He's a stranger in this place'." It's 2017. Mick Wilson's wife has taken off from Adelaide with a long-haul truck-driver and Mick's two little kids. In an attempt to find his family, Mick, a brick-layer and former top-level Australian Rules footballer, blindly heads for Alice Springs. In Central Australia, where many people go to hide from their past, Mick finds a different and challenging world. He stumbles into work on a remote cattle station, with an Aboriginal community close by. He also finds three very different women who shape his destiny.
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MODERN & CONTEMPORARY FICTION (POST C 1945). "Here's some pidgin, Mick," and Garrick spoke rapidly. "Who been dat pella? Where him been prom? You been subby him? Him been talk punny way, ay? Him been kardiya bloke." "What?" Mick shook his head quickly. "I said, 'who is that man? Where is he from? Do you know him? Doesn't he talk in a strange way? He's a stranger in this place'." It's 2017. Mick Wilson's wife has taken off from Adelaide with a long-haul truck-driver and Mick's two little kids. In an attempt to find his family, Mick, a brick-layer and former top-level Australian Rules footballer, blindly heads for Alice Springs. In Central Australia, where many people go to hide from their past, Mick finds a different and challenging world. He stumbles into work on a remote cattle station, with an Aboriginal community close by. He also finds three very different women who shape his destiny.
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