Earlier this year I wrote
Peter Temple is the master of a clipped and terse literary style, where dialogue feels like real conversation. There are times when he uses a word rather than a sentence, in some ways the style reminds me of a former Australian great - Patrick White.
I'm very glad to have begun 2010 with such a good book: my rating 5.0
It won't surprise me if TRUTH is a standout nominee for the 2010 Ned Kelly Award.
My review
TRUTH is on the 2010 Ned Kelly Awards longlist.
3 comments:
I don't think he'll win the Ned Kelly Kerrie as he has withdrawn the book from consideration - at least that's what I read last week somewhere - blowed if I can remember where but he said he had won 5 and didn't want to be considered anymore or something along those lines
Kerrie - You certainly predicted correctly about Truth being successful. I'm impressed. I'll defer to Bernadette about the Ned Kelly award; I confess I don't know enough about whether he's still under consideration.
Thank heavens I'm not going completely bonkers - took me a while to find 'cos now every search result is about yesterday's win but this is the article I read last week that said Temple was not submitting TRUTH for the Ned Kelly awards - ran in the WA paper
http://www.watoday.com.au/entertainment/books/no-more-the-temple-of-doom-20100528-wl0e.html
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