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David Francis David Francis i(A117443 works by) (a.k.a. David W. Francis)
Born: Established: 1958 ;
Gender: Male
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1 Sis David Francis , 2019 single work prose
— Appears in: The Sky Falls Down : An Anthology of Loss 2019; (p. 94)
1 1 y separately published work icon Wedding Bush Road David Francis , Berkeley : Counterpoint Press , 2016 9696004 2016 single work novel

'When he learns of his mother’s ailing health, Daniel Rawson must leave Los Angeles and travel half a world away to the family’s horse farm on Wedding Bush Road, one hundred miles outside of Melbourne. Estranged from his parents, Daniel is hesitant to revisit their history: long divorced, his mother still maintains the farm having put out her cheating, rakish husband, and even in these later years her anger burns brightly.'

'Daniel arrives at the farm in the heat of his parents’ conflict with Sharen, an alluring tenant and ex-lover of his father now perched on family land. Sharen and her unstable son Reggie complicate an already difficult family dynamic while Daniel has to tend to his mother’s condition, his father’s contentious behavior, and the swell of memory that strikes whenever he visits the farm. As Daniel is increasingly drawn to Sharen, the various tensions across the farm will spark events that cannot help but change them all.'

'With a keen eye for the rugged and beautiful Australian landscape, infused with aboriginal [sic] history, and set against the workings of a rural horse farm, Wedding Bush Road is a stunning novel about the choices we make, the regrets that linger, and the unquestionable, inevitable pull of home.' (Source: Counterpoint Press website)
1 The Sadhu i "He is the ever-walker, a journeyman of landscapes, treading paths that rise", David Francis , 2015 single work poetry
— Appears in: Prayers of a Secular World 2015; (p. 21)
1 Moses of the Freeway David Francis , 2014 single work short story
— Appears in: Australian Love Stories 2014; (p. 142-154)
1 No Jesus Man David Francis , 2012 single work autobiography
— Appears in: Griffith Review , Autumn no. 35 2012; (p. 175-182)
1 Thylacine i "She came strutting a woman in black and tan", David Francis , 2012 single work poetry
— Appears in: Rabbit , Winter no. 5 2012; (p. 93-94)
1 Poesy Revolution i "Winkle pickers, punks and dudes are memories, right?", David Francis , 2012 single work poetry
— Appears in: Rabbit , Autumn no. 4 2012; (p. 105-106)
1 Once Removed David Francis , 2010 single work short story
— Appears in: The Best Australian Stories 2010 2010; (p. 1-19) Harvard Review , April no. 38 2010; (p. 28-48, 242)
1 Adrift in a Mist of Memory David Francis , 2010 single work column
— Appears in: The Age , 24 July 2010; (p. 13, 18) Watching a London performance of Tommy Murphy's Holding the Man, David Francis recalls the era in which he knew the play's main characters and in which he avoided the tragedy that engulfed so many - death from AIDS.
1 Games We Used to Play Leigh Hobbs , Myfanwy Jones , Waleed Aly , Deborah Forster , David Francis , Jane Clifton , Marion Halligan , 2009 single work column
— Appears in: The Age , 26 December 2009; (p. 10-11) A group of writers 'take a nostalgic look back at the world of their childhood summers'. (Editor's abstract)
1 From the Bridge David Francis , 2009 single work short story
— Appears in: Wet Ink , March no. 14 2009; (p. 40-41)
1 5 y separately published work icon Stray Dog Winter David Francis , Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2008 Z1522882 2008 single work novel thriller 'Darcy and Fin are brother and sister, nearly. They share the same abusive father, but their mothers were sisters. The betrayal that marks their introduction to the world - Fin was conceived when her mother came to the house to nurse her sister through Darcy's difficult birth - has run through their lives like a river. The secrets and lies that define their childhood have made them only able to trust each other in the world, and when Fin sends Darcy a ticket to join her in Russia where she is living on an art scholarship, he cannot refuse. The only thing he has to promise Fin is that he won't cruise toilets or beats while he is in Russia - the hardline Communist government is anti-homosexual and not kindly disposed to promiscuous foreigners, which Darcy definitely is. Darcy doesn't keep his promise and is caught by the secret police. It is only when his passport is confiscated and he is beaten and interrogated in the notorious Lubyanka prison that he realises he is in a world of trouble and that Fin isn't telling him everything about her life there. He is only released after he agrees to entrap a man whose subversive behaviour threatens to embarrass his father-in-law, a high-raking general. In doing so, Darcy sets in motion a catastrophic chain of events that goes to the centre of power in Russia and blows the lid off a long-buried secret that the Soviets - and the US - are desperate to keep hidden. He also discovers that he doesn't know his carefree big sister at all - and maybe never did.'--(Provided by publisher)
5 8 y separately published work icon Agapanthus Tango David Francis , London : Fourth Estate , 2001 Z823506 2001 single work novel

'Day's mother died with her eyes wide open in 1947, near Maude, New South Wales. No doctor was called. Day watched his father drop her body into the red earth wrapped in a hessian feed sack. He was only twelve. When he rode up Muddy Gates Lane, away from there, he didn't know that he was leaving, but he was sure he wasn't coming back. Day's journey took him to America, travelling as groom for a horse called Unusual. On the Eastern Shore of Maryland he meets Callie, who wants to be the world's first woman jockey. There is no doubt in her eyes, she knows about things that Day has never seen. He is stranded by a love for Callie that takes him back to the harshness of his childhood in Australia, to the dark secrets of his family.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.
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