Stephen Orr
Autor von The New American Herbal
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Stephen Orr is an author whose career began as a runner-up in the 2002 Vogel/Australian award. Attempts to Draw Jesus was published by Allen and Unwin in 2002. Since then he has written several other novels, been long- and shortlisted for awards such as the Commonwealth Writers¿ Prize and the mehr anzeigen Miles Franklin, and worked as a journalist and teacher. His latest novel, One Boy Missing, was his first venture into literary crime writing. (Bowker Author Biography) weniger anzeigen
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Werke von Stephen Orr
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Better Homes and Gardens Annual Recipes 2015 1 Exemplar
Shining Like the Sun 1 Exemplar
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Wissenswertes
- Geschlecht
- male
- Nationalität
- Australia
- Geburtsort
- Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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Orr’s imagination takes us to an unimaginable situation. My shocked reaction to a story from Stephen Orr's new collection...
https://anzlitlovers.com/2023/03/27/mrs-meiners-has-gone-to-get-chalk-from-the-b...
https://anzlitlovers.com/2023/03/27/mrs-meiners-has-gone-to-get-chalk-from-the-b...
Drought ridden Australian family generational farm story. Bleak, and didn't appreciate the style
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- 24
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- Bewertung
- 3.8
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- 19
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The title comes from Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander (1966) by Thomas Merton, quoted in an epigraph at the beginning of Orr's novel.
Stephen Orr shows that one way to tell them that is to write a novel that shows people 'shining like the sun.'
Wilf Healy is eighty, and he lives in the back room of a pub in a small town called Selwyn, where he has taken on all the jobs that aren't economically viable any more. He delivers prescriptions for the chemist and the mail for the post office; he does a shift at the failing pub and he drives the school bus with its half-dozen passengers, along with trying to sell the school's limp vegetable produce. None of these jobs are full time, and some of them aren't paid, not even petrol money for his ancient Morris. These jobs have nothing to offer young people in secondary school who are already planning their escape. Wilf would like to retire, but every time he raises the issue, it turns out to be all too hard for people who know that he will go on doing it indefinitely, because he cares.
What's left of Wilf's family after the death of his wife Nancy and his son Steven, consists of his niece Orla and her ne'er-do-well seventeen-year-old son Connor. There's a brother still alive, called Colin, but he took off for a brighter future decades ago and lives in the US. He did not come home for any of the funerals. So Wilf's responsibilities also consist of caring for Orla who has a 'blood disease' and trying to get Connor back on track after he prematurely left school to become a 'rock star' writing his own songs.
There must be hundreds of Wilfs all over Australia and rural areas elsewhere...
To read the rest of my review please visit https://anzlitlovers.com/2024/04/02/shining-like-the-sun-2024-by-stephen-orr/… (mehr)