Broken Shore #01: Broken Shore, The

Broken Shore #01: Broken Shore, The
Peter Temple
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11 Aug 2010 AU
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9781921656774
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The critical and commercial hit of 2005, Peter Temple's The Broken Shore, is now available in a gorgeous new mass market edition. Before Rai Sarris, Cashin was different. He moved more quickly then, he was less thoughtful, less easily spooked. But there are consequences when you've come that close to dying. For Cashin, they include a posting away from the world of murderers, of Homicide, to the quiet place on the coast where he grew up. Here all he has to do is play the country cop and walk the dogs. And sometimes think about how he was before Sarris. Then rich Charles Bourgoyne, the local benefactor, is bashed and everything seems to point to three boys from the nearby Aboriginal community. Cashin is unconvinced and as tragedy unfolds relentlessly into tragedy, he finds himself holding onto something that might be better let go. The Broken Shore is Temple's finest book yet; a work as moving as it is gripping, and one that defies the boundaries of genre. You will not read a more spellbinding book this year.

#01: Broken Shore, The
#02: Truth

'Peter Temple has been described as one of Australia's best crime novelists, but he's far better than that. He's one of our best novelists full stop.' Sun-Herald 'The best yet...The Broken Shore might just be a great Australian novel, irrespective of genre.' Age 'the greatest joy is Temple's use of language. Every word in The Broken Shore contains meaning...It's deliciously brutal and spare, full of unambiguous violence, prejudice and hatred one moment, and cavernous instances of insight and revelation the next.' Courier-Mail 'it might well be the best crime novel published in this country.' -- Graeme Blundell Weekend Australian 'The Broken Shore is one of those watershed books that makes you rethink your ideas about reading.' -- Kerryn Goldsworthy Sydney Morning Herald 'With this moving portrait of a detective at a turning point in his life, one of our most accomplished crime writers gives us not only a gripping whodunnit but grapples with issues ranging from race relations, friendship, loyalty, politics, the past and the future to the bond between a man and his dog.' -- Susan Kurosawa Age 'The Broken Shore portrays a community in thrall to long-established prejudices and passions. It is also about the inner destruction of families: raw, cruel and moving.' The Times 'A towering achievement that brings alive a ferocious landscape and a motley assortment of clashing characters. The sense of place is stifling in its intensity, and seldom has a waltz of the damned proven so hypnotic. Indispensable.' Guardian 'It's a stone classic. Hard as nails and horrible, but read page one and I challenge you not to finish it.' Independent 'The Broken Shore offers both poetry and gore, and it's best if you have a taste for both. Having read the new novels of Michael Connelly and Martin Cruz Smith, I have to say that Temple belongs in their company. Australia is a long way off, but this bloke is world-class.' Washington Post 'The Broken Shore is superb, full of great characters, and set in rural Australia, a place Temple obviously loves. But it's his dialogue that carries the book. If Raymond Chandler had been born Down Under, this is what his novels would have sounded like.' Globe and Mail 'The Broken Shore...is a crime novel that towers high above the rest of the genre...' Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Peter Temple is the author of nine novels, including four books in the Jack Irish series. He has won the Ned Kelly Award for Crime Fiction five times, and his widely acclaimed novels have been published in over twenty countries. The Broken Shore won the UK's prestigious Duncan Lawrie Dagger for the best crime novel of 2007 and Truth won the 2010 Miles Franklin Literary Award, the first time a crime writer has won an award of this calibre anywhere in the world. Temple's first two novels Bad Debts and Black Tide have been made into films with Guy Pearce starring as Jack Irish.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781921656774
Published: 11 Aug 2010
Published In: Australia
Imprint: Text Publishing Company
Publisher: Text Publishing Co
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Pages: 352
Dewey: 823.4

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