{"product_id":"9781760550950","title":"Salt Creek","description":"Author: Lucy Treloar \u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781760550950 \u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Pan Macmillan Australia \u003cbr\u003eYear First Published: 2017 \u003cbr\u003ePages: 416 \u003cbr\u003eDimensions: 197mm x 128mm x 26mm \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDescripition: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE MILES FRANKLIN AWARD 2016\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE 2017 INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE 2016 INDIE BOOK AWARD FOR DEBUT FICTION From the winner of the 2014 Commonwealth Short Story Prize (Pacific Region) and the 2013 Writing Australia Unpublished Manuscript Award\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"Salt Creek introduces a capacious talent\" \u003ci\u003eThe Australian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eSome things collapse slow, and cannot always be rebuilt, and even if a thing can be remade it will never be as it was.\u003c\/i\u003e Salt Creek, 1855, lies at the far reaches of the remote, beautiful and inhospitable coastal region, the Coorong, in the new province of South Australia. The area, just opened to graziers willing to chance their luck, becomes home to Stanton Finch and his large family, including fifteen-year-old Hester Finch. Once wealthy political activists, the Finch family has fallen on hard times. Cut adrift from the polite society they were raised to be part of, Hester and her siblings make connections where they can: with the few travellers that pass along the nearby stock route - among them a young artist, Charles - and the Ngarrindjeri people they have dispossessed. Over the years that pass, and Aboriginal boy, Tully, at first a friend, becomes part of the family. Stanton's attempts to tame the harsh landscape bring ruin to the Ngarrindjeri people's homes and livelihoods, and unleash a chain of events that will tear the family asunder. As Hester witnesses the destruction of the Ngarrindjeri's subtle culture and the ideals that her family once held so close, she begins to wonder what civilization is. Was it for this life and this world that she was educated? \u003cb\u003e PRAISE FOR \u003ci\u003eSALT CREEK\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \"this fine, accomplished novel is a respectful and unobtrusively beautiful homage to the Ngarrindjeri people\" \u003ci\u003eSydney Morning Herald\u003c\/i\u003e \"... written with a profound respect for history: with an understanding that beyond a certain point, the past and its people are unknowable.\" \u003ci\u003eSydney Morning Herald\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45327709700254,"sku":"ADS-9781760550950","price":24.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781760550950.jpg?v=1744611018","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781760550950","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}