Cadaver Dog
Author: Best, Luke
ISBN: 9780702262999
Publisher: University of Queensland Press
Year first published: 01 Sep 2020
Pages: 112
Format: Paperback / softback
This stunning and powerful verse novel was the winner of the 2019 Thomas Shapcott Prize for Poetry.
When an inland tsunami floods the foothills of a mountain city, a woman survives the inundation of her home, alone. This edgy, potent verse novel circles the scene like the cadaver dog whose work it is to search for those who are missing. Reimagining traditions of bush gothic and outback horror, Luke Best crafts a terrifying and acute psychological portrait of grief and guilt. Loss, cowardice and trauma pulse through this singular and uncompromising narrative of ecological and personal disaster.
ISBN: 9780702262999
Publisher: University of Queensland Press
Year first published: 01 Sep 2020
Pages: 112
Format: Paperback / softback
This stunning and powerful verse novel was the winner of the 2019 Thomas Shapcott Prize for Poetry.
When an inland tsunami floods the foothills of a mountain city, a woman survives the inundation of her home, alone. This edgy, potent verse novel circles the scene like the cadaver dog whose work it is to search for those who are missing. Reimagining traditions of bush gothic and outback horror, Luke Best crafts a terrifying and acute psychological portrait of grief and guilt. Loss, cowardice and trauma pulse through this singular and uncompromising narrative of ecological and personal disaster.
