The Colour

by Rose Tremain | Literature & Fiction |
ISBN: 0099425157 Global Overview for this book
Registered by tqd of Sydney CBD, New South Wales Australia on 8/28/2008
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Journal Entry 1 by tqd from Sydney CBD, New South Wales Australia on Thursday, August 28, 2008
I have tried this one before on a bookring, but got nowhere. I bought this copy cheap at Abbey's sale, fully meaning to try again. However, it's languishing on my Mt TBR, and crimson-tide has it on her wishlist, and is the lucky September Southern Cross recipient.

So off it goes, and I hope she has more luck with it than I did. :)

From the back of the book (all typos mine):

Joseph and Harriet Blackstone emigrate from Norfolk to New Zealand in search of new beginnings and prosperity. But the harsh land near Christchurch threatens to destroy them almost before they begin. When Joseph finds gold in the creek he is seized by a rapturous obsession with the voluptuous riches awaiting him deep in the earth. Abandoning his farm and family, he sets off alone for the new gold-fields over the Southern Alps, a moral wilderness where many others, under the seductive dreams of 'the colour', are violently rushing to their destinies.

By turns both moving and terrifying, it is a quest for the impossible, an attempt to mine the complexities of love and explore the sacrifices to be made in the pursuit of happiness.


I shall get this in the post to crimson-tide sometime rsn.

Journal Entry 2 by tqd at Sydney CBD, New South Wales Australia on Sunday, August 31, 2008

Released 15 yrs ago (8/31/2008 UTC) at Sydney CBD, New South Wales Australia

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Popped in the mail to crimson-tide today. Happy reading!

Journal Entry 3 by wingcrimson-tidewing from Balingup, Western Australia Australia on Friday, September 5, 2008
Thanks very much tqd. I've read two of her other books and enjoyed them both; so that's the reason this one is on my wish list.

I do hope that it was only you having 'a bad day'.
;-)

Journal Entry 4 by wingcrimson-tidewing at Balingup, Western Australia Australia on Tuesday, August 16, 2016
Have now read quite a few of Rose Tremain's books, and love her writing. All the novels are so different. While this is not one of her best, I still thoroughly enjoyed it.

Journal Entry 5 by wingcrimson-tidewing at Balingup, Western Australia Australia on Thursday, November 10, 2016

Released 7 yrs ago (11/11/2016 UTC) at Balingup, Western Australia Australia

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I'd offered this in the OZ VBB a few months back. Now it's been chosen by jennymidget, another Rose Tremain fan, so it's off to a new home. Enjoy!

Journal Entry 6 by jennymidget at Bellbowrie, Queensland Australia on Friday, November 25, 2016
Thanks crimson-tide!

Journal Entry 7 by jennymidget at Bellbowrie, Queensland Australia on Sunday, November 4, 2018
Bleak but rich, Tremain doesn't hold back in this tale of migrant lives in New Zealand
She paces excellently between suspense and deep description of little things, and handles every flawed character with pathos and bluntness in equal measure. The way she describes and interacts with the beauty and terror of the land and environment is gorgeous.

Passing on through BookMooch.com.

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