It was time for me to get back to some Australian books. This
one is set in western Australia a long ways inland, bordering
on the outback. It's a hot, dry, barren land. A school
teacher stuck in a desolate little town in the middle of
nowhere finally gets a 6-week vacation, and plans to make the
long trip by rail to Sydney to enjoy it. On the way, on an
overnight stay in a town waiting for the next train, he
succumbs to gambling fever and loses all his money. His
flawed character, combined with his lack of money, sends him
sliding down the social ladder in a desperate struggle to get
out of the town.
The kangaroo hunt is a shocking orgy of calloused killing and
savagery. I loved it.
SPOILER:
Anybody read this one? Am I wrong or was there a little
sodomy going on at the end of the kangaroo hunt? There's just
hints, nothing more, and I want to know if I read them
correctly. My other question is if anybody else thought the
ending cheated, and should have been a lot more
noirish.
miker
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