A sand archive
Day, Gregory2018
Book
Seeking stories of Australia's Great Ocean Road, a young writer stumbles across a manual from a minor player in the road's history, FB Herschell. It is a volume unremarkable in every way, save for the surprising portrait of its author that can be read between its lines: a vision of a man who writes with uncanny poetry about sand. And as he continues to mine the archive of FB Herschell - engineer, historian, philosopher - it is not the subject, but the man who begins to fascinate. A man whose private revolution among the streets of Paris in May 1968 begins to change the way he views life, love, and the coastal landscape into which he was born...
Main title:
A sand archive / Gregory Day.
Author:
Day, Gregory, author
Work:
Imprint:
Sydney, New South Wales : Picador, 2018.©2018.
Collation:
304 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 24 cm.
Notes:
"A poignant novel of one man's curious life and remarkable afterlife" -- Cover.
ISBN:
9781760552145 (pbk)
Dewey class:
A823.4
Language:
English
Subject:
Authors, Australian -- FictionSand dunes -- Australia -- FictionSand dune management -- FictionStudent movements -- France -- History -- 20th century -- FictionCivil engineers -- Australia -- Biography -- FictionParis (France) -- Politics and government -- 1958-1969 -- FictionGeelong (Vic.) -- FictionGreat Ocean Road (Vic.) -- FictionAustralian fiction
BRN:
339254