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'With dreams of moving to a house by the sea haunting their every day, Millvan and his wife, Michelle, owners of a riverside property in a small outback farming community, struggle with drought, friends, adversaries and the wrenchingly familiar rural cycle of hope and despair.
'Drown them in the Sea tells a compellingly honest story of the challenges and hardships of farming life in Australia. In vivid, vital language, Nicholas Angel captures both devastated landscape and human desire in this powerfully authentic evocation of life on the land.' (Synopsis)
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Dedication: To my Grandparents
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Epigraph: It crushed them...until they perceived themselves finite and small, specks and motes moving with weak cunning and little wisdom amidst the play and interplay of the great blind elements and forces. (Jack London)
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Divine Vision in the Vines
2005
single work
review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 1 January 2005; (p. 9)
— Review of Hill of Grace 2004 single work novel ; Drown Them in the Sea 2003 single work novel -
Great Southern Storyland
2004
single work
review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 21 December - 11 January vol. 122 no. 6452 2004-2005; (p. 124)
— Review of Drown Them in the Sea 2003 single work novel ; The Broken Book 2004 single work novel ; Brother Fish 2004 single work novel ; Angel Puss 2004 single work novel ; The Silver Donkey : A Novel for Children 2004 single work children's fiction -
Prized Lands
2004
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , December-January no. 267 2004-2005; (p. 49-50)
— Review of Drown Them in the Sea 2003 single work novel ; The Hanging Tree 2004 single work novel -
Life on the Farm Minus the Usual Bush Cliches
2004
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 20-21 November 2004; (p. 11)
— Review of Drown Them in the Sea 2003 single work novel -
New Fiction
2004
single work
review
— Appears in: Canberra Sunday Times , 21 November 2004; (p. 19)
— Review of Coronation Talkies 2004 single work novel ; Drown Them in the Sea 2003 single work novel
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Not Drowning, Just a Slightly Paler Shade of White
2004
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 2-3 October 2004; (p. 8-9)
— Review of Drown Them in the Sea 2003 single work novel -
Farmer's Voice Tells a Hard Tale
2004
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 30 October 2004; (p. 7)
— Review of Drown Them in the Sea 2003 single work novel -
When the Tough Get to Dreaming
2004
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 6 November 2004; (p. 5)
— Review of Seeing George 2004 single work novel ; Drown Them in the Sea 2003 single work novel -
New Fiction
2004
single work
review
— Appears in: Canberra Sunday Times , 21 November 2004; (p. 19)
— Review of Coronation Talkies 2004 single work novel ; Drown Them in the Sea 2003 single work novel -
Life on the Farm Minus the Usual Bush Cliches
2004
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 20-21 November 2004; (p. 11)
— Review of Drown Them in the Sea 2003 single work novel -
Stranger Than Fiction but the Judges Loved It
2003
single work
column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 24 September 2003; (p. 5)
Awards
- 2005 joint winner The Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Novelist of the Year
- 2003 joint winner The Australian / Vogel National Literary Award (for an unpublished manuscript) joint winner with Ruth Balint's non-fiction work, Troubled Waters.
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