Game by Trevor Shearston
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Game by Trevor Shearston

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SKU TBM9781743315217
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Book Type: SECONDHAND
ISBN: 9781743315217
Author: Trevor Shearston
Edition: 1st Edition
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Place: Crows Nest NSW
Year: 2013
Format: Paperback
Pages: 336 pages
Period: 19th Century

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Ex library copy with external barcode sticker and stiff protective plastic cover to front and back cover but not spine. Wear to book corners and edges. Pages have started to sun. Book is clean and binding is still very good.

A moving and brilliant literary novel about the last days of legendary bushranger Ben Hall.

It is 1865. For three years Ben Hall and the men riding with him have been lords of every road in mid-western New South Wales from Bathurst to Goulburn, Lambing Flat to Forbes. But with the Harbourers' Act made law, coach escorts armed now with the new Colt revolving rifle, and mailbags more often containing cheques than banknotes, being game is no longer enough.

The road of negotiated surrender is closed. Jack Gilbert has shot dead a police sergeant at Jugiong. Constable Nelson, father of eight, lies buried at Collector, killed by John Dunn. Neither time did Ben pull the fatal trigger, but he too will hang if the three are taken.

Harry Hall is seven. Ben has not seen the boy since his wife Biddy left to live with another man, taking Harry. The need to see his son, to be in some way a father again, has grown urgent. But how much time is left before the need to give the game away and disappear becomes the greater urgency?

A spare, epic work of haunting beauty that breathes life back into legend and confirms Shearston as one of Australia's finest writers. (back cover)

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