The Grass Hotel

The Grass Hotel
Craig Sherborne
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Trade Paperback
h234 x 153mm - 208pg
1 Feb 2022 AU
International import eta 7-19 days
9781922458353
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Carry me, son. Do not leave me behind. Are you listening to me? Of course you' re listening, you say, and add the F-word. Off you go to cope with a storm. Lucerne armfuls for horses. For cows, rye-spindly hay. Alone in the paddocks of his grass hotel a man tends to his beloved horses, Sock and Boy. The voice of his mother-accusatory, fragmenting from dementia-haunts his every move, an excoriating reminder of his failures in the world of people. The Grass Hotel is a story of damage and repair, of familial obligation and the resentments it can cause. It is also about the profound comfort that a connection with animals can offer. With its extraordinary use of language, Craig Sherborne' s novel is by turns savage and tender, raw and poetic: a small masterpiece.
' Sherborne' s talents with narrative and poetry combine to produce a striking fiction. . . offering a unique, vivid portrait of his characters. With the crystallisation and compression of poetry, Sherborne explores ideas of property, freedom and loyalty, and produces a novel as beautiful in its conjunctions as the chandelier swinging over its landscapes. ' * Australian on Tree Palace * ' A riveting piece of writing that is liable to transfix any reader who gets past the opening chapter. . . Sherborne is a breathtaking writer because he writes of unspeakable things with a kind of affectless gaucherie that dazzles the mind. . . this is an engulfing, heart-stopping book-a performance that dazzles the eyes and leaves the reader gasping for air. ' * Age/SMH on The Amateur Science of Love *
Craig Sherborne' s memoir Hoi Polloi was shortlisted for the Queensland and Victorian Premier' s Literary Awards. The follow-up, Muck, won the Queensland Literary Award for Non-fiction. Sherborne' s debut novel, The Amateur Science of Love, won the Best Writing Prize in the 2012 Melbourne Prize for Literature and was shortlisted for the NSW and Victorian Premiers' Awards. He has also written two volumes of poetry, and his journalism and poetry have appeared in most of Australia' s leading literary journals and anthologies. His two most recent novels are Tree Palace, shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award, and Off the Record.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781922458353
Published: 1 Feb 2022
Published In: Australia
Imprint: Text Publishing Company
Publisher: Text Publishing
Format: Trade Paperback
Height: 234mm
Width: 153mm
Pages: 208

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