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The Rain Heron (The Age Book Of The Year 2021)Stock informationGeneral Fields
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Local DescriptionMATILDA BOOKSHOP REVIEW This is another fiercely imaginative, wildly creative novel from one of Australia’s best young writers. As with his debut, Flames, The Rain Heron illuminates a unique vision, as if transcribed from deep within a fever-dream, of a world inhabited by forces outside of our understanding and how humans blithely impact on this world. As well as the fabled creatures Arnott magically conjures, the characters, their needs and loves, are warmly drawn. If you like to be amazed, confounded and left wide-eyed in wonder by an author’s breathtaking audacity and incandescent story-telling ability, this is a novel for you. GAVIN DescriptionRen lives alone on the remote frontier of a country devastated by a coup. High on the forested slopes, she survives by hunting and trading--and forgetting. But when a young soldier comes to the mountains in search of a local myth, Ren is inexorably drawn into her impossible mission. As their lives entwine, unravel and erupt--as myths merge with reality--both Ren and the soldier are forced to confront what they regret, what they love, and what they fear. The Rain Heron is the dizzying, dazzling new novel from the author of Flames. AwardsWinner of The Age Book of the Year 2021 Shortlisted for the ABIA Small Publisher’s Adult Book of the Year 2021 Shortlisted for Miles Franklin Award 2021 Age Book of the Year 2021 Reviews
J. P. Pomare
Books+Publishing
Ruth Gilligan
RN Bookshelf
Laura Elizabeth Woollett, Australian Book Review
Judges’ report on Flames, Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelist 2019 Author descriptionRobbie Arnott was a 2019 Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Novelist and won the Margaret Scott Prize in the 2019 Tasmanian Premier’s Literary Prizes. His widely acclaimed debut, Flames (2018), was shortlisted for a Victorian Premier’s Literary Award, a New South Wales Premier’s Literary Award, a Queensland Literary Award, the Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction and Not the Booker Prize. He lives in Hobart. |