The Gift of Speed

The Gift of Speed

by Steven Carroll
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 18/12/2012

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The history of his summer is written in the grass ...


In 1960 the West Indies arrive in Australia, bringing with them a carnival of music, colour and possibility. Michael, who is sixteen, is enthralled. If, like his heroes, he has the gift of speed, he will move beyond his suburb into the great world ... And yet, as his summer unfolds, Michael realises that there are other ways to live. When the calypso chorus accompanying Frank Worrell and his team fades, Michael has learnt many things; about his parents, his suburb, a girl called Kathleen Marsden, and about himself. THE GIFT OF SPEED is a masterful blend of story-telling, memorable characters and a uniquely Australian sensibility by a novelist at the height of his powers.


'A must-read' Bookseller+Publisher

'If, as they say, the past is another country, then Carroll is the ideal guide' Sydney Morning Herald

'Rarely has such an arid place as suburban Melbourne in the heat of 1961 evoked such graceful and tender prose' The Age

Shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award, 2005

ISBN:
9781743099698
9781743099698
Category:
Fiction
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
18-12-2012
Language:
English
Publisher:
4th Estate
Steven Carroll

Steven Carroll's is the author of a dozen novels including A World of Other People (2013)  joint winner of the Prime Minister's Literary Award and The Spirit of Progress (2011).

He won the Miles Franklin Award for The Time We Have Taken in 2008.

Steven lives in Melbourne with his partner, the author Fiona Capp, and their son.

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