Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9780994395849
Year: 2016
Publisher: Transit Lounge


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'This is the shape-shifting detail of life, the tiny horrible and beautiful things we don't noticeuntil fever or trauma stop us in our tracks; Lane has pulled them from the depths of ourpsyche and written them into a story of family that shifts and tilts the world we know.Dreamlike, nightmarish, unforgettable.' - Jane Rawson, author of A Wrong Turn at the Officeof Unmade Lists and Formaldehyde

At its heart, The Salamanders is a love story. Arthur lives in a hut by the Hawkesbury River,the detritus of suburban life gradually encroaching. When Rosie, the adopted daughter of hisfathers' second wife returns from England to visit. their time together raises childhoodmemories of their father Peregrine, a famous and controversial artist, and what happened at aholiday by the ocean years ago.

Rosie, Arthur and Peregrine are characters the reader will find it hard to let go of and this isalso a subtle, affecting novel of ideas.With poetic, hallucinatory power, Lane explores how art can become life, how we as adultscannot truly escape the past and the influence of our parents, and how we might embrace theintensity and beauty of the moment as we journey towards reconciliation.

William Lane on his new book The Salamanders and the strangeness of life. Read therecent article in The Newcastle Herald