Lost Voices

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Fourth Estate
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2012
Edition: First Edition

Description: 458 pages. Book is in general good condition. There is some light reading wear present, but still a presentable copy. Eighteen Year Old Hugh Tries To Save His Father From Ruin By Approaching An Estranged Great Uncle, A Wealthy Lawyer Who Lives In A Tasmanian Farmhouse,

Publishers Description: Twice winner of the Miles Franklin Award, Christopher Koch returns with a remarkable novel of gripping narrative power. Young Hugh Dixon believes he can save his father from ruin if he asks his estranged great-uncle Walter-- a wealthy lawyer who lives alone in a Tasmanian farmhouse passed down through the family-for help. As he is drawn into Walters rarefied world, Hugh discovers that both his uncle and the farmhouse are links to a notorious episode in the mid nineteenth century. Walters father, Martin, was living in the house when it was raided by members of an outlaw community run by Lucas Wilson, a charismatic ex-soldier attempting to build a utopia. But like later societies with communitarian ideals, Nowhere Valley was controlled by the gun, with Wilson as benevolent dictator. Twenty-year-old Martins sojourn in the Valley as Wilsons disciple has become an obsession with Walter Dixon: one which haunts his present and keeps the past tantalizingly close. As Walter encourages Hughs ambition to become an artist, and again comes to his aid when one of Hughs friends is charged with murder, the way lifes patterns repeat themselves from one generation to another becomes eerily apparent. Dramatic, insightful and evocative, Lost Voices is an intriguing double narrative that confirms Koch as one of our most significant and compelling novelists.

ISBN: 9780732294632