Matthew Flinders' Cat
by Bryce Courtenay | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0670910619 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0670910619 Global Overview for this book
Registered by servalan of Sydney CBD, New South Wales Australia on 3/19/2006
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Synopsis
Billy O'Shannessy, once prominent in law circles, is now on the street where he sleeps on a bench underneath a window of the State Library, on the sill of which rests a bronze statue of Matthew Flinders' cat, Trim. Ryan is a ten-year-old, a street kid heading for all the usual trouble and whose mother is a heroin addict. The two meet and form an unlikely and often difficult friendship. Appealing to the boy's imagination by telling him the story of the circumnavigation of Australia told through Trim's eyes, Billy is drawn deeply into Ryan's life and the Sydney underworld. Over several months the two begin the mutual process of rehabilitation. Matthew Flinders' Cat is a modern-day story of a city, it's crime, the plight of the homeless and the politics of greed and perversion. It is also a story of the human heart.
Billy O'Shannessy, once prominent in law circles, is now on the street where he sleeps on a bench underneath a window of the State Library, on the sill of which rests a bronze statue of Matthew Flinders' cat, Trim. Ryan is a ten-year-old, a street kid heading for all the usual trouble and whose mother is a heroin addict. The two meet and form an unlikely and often difficult friendship. Appealing to the boy's imagination by telling him the story of the circumnavigation of Australia told through Trim's eyes, Billy is drawn deeply into Ryan's life and the Sydney underworld. Over several months the two begin the mutual process of rehabilitation. Matthew Flinders' Cat is a modern-day story of a city, it's crime, the plight of the homeless and the politics of greed and perversion. It is also a story of the human heart.
Journal Entry 2 by servalan at Dalgety Square Apartments Library, 99 Jones St in Ultimo, New South Wales Australia on Saturday, June 23, 2007
Released 16 yrs ago (6/23/2007 UTC) at Dalgety Square Apartments Library, 99 Jones St in Ultimo, New South Wales Australia
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