A Sand Archive
Shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2019
Gregory Day
ISBN: | 9781760552145 |
Publisher: | Picador |
Published: | 24 April, 2018 |
Format: | Paperback |
Language: | English |
Links | Pan Macmillan |
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A Sand Archive
Shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2019
Gregory Day
Long before I ever met him I knew his name from the leaky dessicated type of a grey-brown slim volume, cheaply printed but essential to my research... Seeking stories of Australia's Great Ocean Road, a young writer stumbles across a small, technical manual from a minor player in the road's history: Dune Stabilisation and Other Engineering Difficulties by FB Herschell. It is a volume unremarkable in every way, save for the surprising portrait of its author that can be read between its lines: a vision of a man who writes with uncanny poetry about sand. And as he continues to mine the archive of FB Herschell - engineer, historian, philosopher - it is not the subject, but the man who begins to fascinate. A man whose private revolution among the streets of Paris and dunes of France begins to change the way he sees Australia's most famous coastal road...
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