The last double sunrise / Peter Yeldham.

By: Yeldham, Peter [author.]Contributor(s): McDonald, Jennifer [narrator.]Material type: SoundSoundPublisher: [North Sydney, N.S.W.] : For Pity Sake Publishing Pty Ltd, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Edition: UnabridgedDescription: 1 MP3 CD (11 hr., 20 min.) : digital ; 12 cmContent type: spoken word Media type: audio Carrier type: audio discISBN: 9780648169529Subject(s): Prisoners of war -- Australia -- Fiction | Artists -- Italy -- Fiction | World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Australian -- Fiction | World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Italian -- Fiction | World War, 1939-1945 -- FictionGenre/Form: War fiction. | Historical fiction. | Audiobooks. DDC classification: A823.4 Narrated by Jennifer McDonald.Summary: Carlo Minelli is about to discover that war and art are certainly not mutually exclusive. His politically-ambitious father is carefully curating Carlo's future at the family's Lombardy vineyard. But Carlo and his artistic mother have other ideas. On the day he is meant to take up a highly coveted art scholarship at the French-run Villa Medici in Rome, Il Duce declares war. Carlo is turned away from the heavily guarded entrance to the Villa, leaving him neither a student nor gainfully employed in support of the war effort. Press-ganged into the Italian Army and captured in North Africa, Carlo the POW sketches and paints his way across three continents and several oceans, bringing the hardships of World War II into sharp relief against unexpected mateship, beauty and love.
Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.
Star ratings
    Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Adult Fiction Audio Northam
F YEL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31111073846709

Requires the use of an MP3 enabled CD player or computer.

Carlo Minelli is about to discover that war and art are certainly not mutually exclusive. His politically-ambitious father is carefully curating Carlo's future at the family's Lombardy vineyard. But Carlo and his artistic mother have other ideas. On the day he is meant to take up a highly coveted art scholarship at the French-run Villa Medici in Rome, Il Duce declares war. Carlo is turned away from the heavily guarded entrance to the Villa, leaving him neither a student nor gainfully employed in support of the war effort. Press-ganged into the Italian Army and captured in North Africa, Carlo the POW sketches and paints his way across three continents and several oceans, bringing the hardships of World War II into sharp relief against unexpected mateship, beauty and love.

Narrated by Jennifer McDonald.

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.