The Conversations at Curlow Creek
Books / Paperback
ISBN: 0679779051 / Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, January 1998
In 1827, in a remote hut in New South Wales, two strangers--an illiterate Irish ex-convict scheduled to be hanged and the police officer sent to supervise the hanging--exchange memories and discover unlikely links between their lives
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A new work of fiction by the author of Remembering Babylon. It is 1827, and, in a remote hut high on the plains of New South Wales, two strangers spend the night in talk. One, an illiterate Irishman, and ex-convict and bushranger, is to be hanged at dawn. The other is the police officer who has been sent to supervise the hanging. As the night wears on, the two men share memories and uncover unlikely connections between their lives. 240 pp. Author tour. 20,000 print.
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