The Vintage and the Gleaning (Hardback)
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The Vintage and the Gleaning (Hardback)

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Hardback Published: 23/06/2011

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Smithy is a retired shearer turned vineyard worker in his autumn years. It is hard graft, but Smithy has always worked with his hands. Physically all but destroyed after a lifetime of hard liquor, but now sober, he begins to see the world with new eyes, a meditative, singular figure in the town's bar on rowdy Friday nights. But clarity can be a curse. Finally confronting his past, overwhelmed by long-buried feelings of regret, nostalgia and loss, Smithy steps in to help a young woman in a desperate situation. A cautious friendship develops, but Charlotte's husband is widely suspected of murder, and Smithy begins to fear that he will pay a high price for his gallantry. Written with an authentic music, and infused with beauty, brutality and sadness The Vintage and the Gleaning is a compelling observation of men, women and country. A remarkably accomplished debut novel.

Publisher: Quercus Publishing Plc
ISBN: 9780857050908
Dimensions: 234 x 153 x 26 mm

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Raven88

“Australian-Americana”

What struck me from the beginning of the novel was the sheer 'American-ness' of
the novel- it could easily have been set in the wine producing area of
California as the atmosphere and more importantly the... More

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