TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hughes,John
TI  - The dogs: a novel 
SN  - 9780645076349 (paperback)
AV  - PR8291.U43 D65 2021
U1  - A823.4 23
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Perth, W.A.
PB  - Upswell
KW  - Novel
KW  - English
KW  - Australia
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Texts
KW  - Domestic fiction
KW  - Estranged families
KW  - fast
KW  - Family secrets
KW  - Terminally ill parents
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Australian fiction
KW  - Mothers and sons
KW  - Families
KW  - AUS fiction (New South Wales)
KW  - [GENRE]
KW  - Adult fiction
KW  - Print
KW  - Australian Fiction
KW  - lcgft
N2  - Is it possible to write about the living without imagining them dead? Michael Shamanov is a man running away from life's responsibilities. His marriage is over, he barely sees his son and he hasn't seen his mother since banishing her to a nursing home two years earlier. A successful screen writer, Michael's encounter with his mother's nurse leads him to discover that the greatest story he's never heard may lie with his dying mother. And perhaps it's her life he's been running away from and not his own. Is the past ever finished? Should we respect another's silence? And if so, is it ever possible to understand and put to rest the strange idea of family that travels through the flesh?
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