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Vortex

Vortex

by Rodney Hall
Paperback
Publication Date: 27/08/2024

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we only need to tease out the first stray thread, such as the lingering wake left by a white ship forging through grey light to where a thousand seabirds disappear from the collapsing sky . . . and we've begun

It is 1954, but not the same way the history books would have it. Events and characters swirl in a vortex of fragments and chance connections.

Brisbane celebrates the young Queen Elizabeth II's arrival on her first royal tour of the commonwealth. Meanwhile the future is being shaped behind closed doors, laying the foundations for the 21st century . . .

A magisterial novel resonant with contemporary concerns, by one of Australia's foremost authors writing at the height of his ambition.

ISBN:
9781761560767
9781761560767
Category:
Contemporary fiction
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
27-08-2024
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan Australia
Country of origin:
Australia
Pages:
464
Dimensions (mm):
156x232x33mm
Weight:
0.5kg

'Everything about Rodney Hall's work is major: the beauty of the writing, the dark and vibrant imagination, and the enormous pleasure it gives the reader.
Michael Herr

'Rodney Hall writes the world as if it were lit by stormlight, a genius that recognises each facet for its singularity as well as its inherent interconnectedness.'
Josephine Rowe

'Vortex is many mighty things. Above all, it is generous.'
Beejay Silcox

Rodney Hall

Rodney Hall is one of our foremost authors.

He left school at sixteen for family reasons, already determined to become a writer and to educate himself by experience. Two years later he was called up for National Service. Afterwards, when the opportunity arose, he sailed from Brisbane to Genoa and set out, with £112 in his pocket, to walk around Europe.

He was thirty-one when he enrolled at university and his formative literary influences-quite at odds with those of his contemporaries-were already set. He studied Old English and the cultural history of India while supporting himself as an ABC radio actor and scriptwriter.

Since then he has won two Miles Franklin Awards, his novels have been widely published and translated into many languages, and he has been twice presented with the gold medal of the Australian Literature Society.

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