Bought at Abbey''s sale.

From the back of the book, all typos mine:

Hunter Carlyon hasn''t had an easy life. His mother lost, his father trapped, his girlfriend missing... But when his painting becomes a contender in a national competition, things unravel even more...

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Sending this off in a bookbag for the convention. If I can't make it, at least some of my books can!

Happy reading!

Gratefully received, to be released at the convention in October. Thanks from the convention committee.

Picked up at the Melbourne 2007 BookCrossing Convention - it's about an artist, which I like, and it has the most fulsome reviews I've ever seen on the back. According to The Australian,

"Reading Anson Cameron's latest novel is like standing on the pick-up of a truck as it plunges at breakneck speed down a bush road. The view is exhilarating, the driver's navigational skills remarkable, but the occasional flying rock almost knocks the passenger off."

I wait with bated breath for the moment when I too will be knocked off.

As always, oversold by the blurb. But I appreciated this thoughtful, truculent accoutn of a man caught between the Aboriginality he never knew, and the white society that always makes him Other. Telling about race, love, social divisions and fought-over land in Australia.

His artistic sign painting leads him to design a new australian flag, but does his design make the finals simply for tokenistic reasons? I liked Hunter's battling dad, and the denouement - but couldn't we at least find out who won and what happened to the girlfriend? I don't like all these ends left hanging!

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At the foot of the awesome sculpture.