The hands : an Australian pastoral / Stephen Orr.
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TextPublisher: Mile End South Australia : Wakefield Press, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Description: 351 pages ; 22 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781743053430Subject(s): Australian fiction -- 21st century | Droughts -- Australia -- Fiction | Families -- Australia -- Fiction | Farm life -- Australia -- Fiction | Life change events -- Australia -- Fiction | Australia -- Social conditions -- FictionGenre/Form: Australian fiction. DDC classification: A823.4 LOC classification: PR3607.Q2Summary: On a cattle station that stretches beyond the horizon, seven people are trapped by their history and the need to make a living. Trevor Wilkie, the good father, holds it all together, promising his sons a future he no longer believes in himself. The boys, free to roam the world's biggest backyard, have nowhere to go. Trevor's father, Murray, is the keeper of stories and the holder of the deed. Murray has no intention of giving up what his forefathers created. But the drought is winning. The cattle are ribs. The bills keep coming. And one day, on the way to town, an accident changes everything.
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On a cattle station that stretches beyond the horizon, seven people are trapped by their history and the need to make a living. Trevor Wilkie, the good father, holds it all together, promising his sons a future he no longer believes in himself. The boys, free to roam the world's biggest backyard, have nowhere to go. Trevor's father, Murray, is the keeper of stories and the holder of the deed. Murray has no intention of giving up what his forefathers created. But the drought is winning. The cattle are ribs. The bills keep coming. And one day, on the way to town, an accident changes everything.
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