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Issue Details: First known date: 2010... 2010 The Mary Smokes Boys
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'Grey's mother dies giving birth to his sister Irene and the tragedy haunts his life in the small town of Mary Smokes. Grey prays that his mother will be returned to him in some form, so he might protect her from the world as his father did not. This prayer, Grey believes is answered in his sister Irene. He becomes obsessed with protecting her purity and innocence.

'Also with his mother gone and his father turned to drink, Grey begins running with the wild boys, horse-handlers and fox hunters and part-time timber workers - members of a small, vanishing tribe who find themselves caught between an old relationship with place and a new one that is exemplified by the highway that threatens their town. A rash gamble by Grey and Irene's broken father means he and the Mary Smokes boys must steal horses to ensure Irene's safety. The consequences seem set to fall on Greys' closest friend, 'Ook' Eccleston. As Grey's, Eccleston's and Irene's lives are put at stake his allegiances falter and the world of Mary Smokes slips into a heightened state of darkness and threat.

'With the passion of Emily Bronte in Wuthering Heights and the distilled beauty of Ondaatje, Patrick Holland captures the fragility and grace of small town life and how one fateful moment can forever alter the course of our lives.' (From the publisher's website.)

Notes

  • Epigraph: Tarry ye here, and watch with me.

    -Matthew 26:38

  • Dedication: This book is for Racheal

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Yarraville, Footscray - Maribyrnong area, Melbourne - West, Melbourne, Victoria,: Transit Lounge , 2010 .
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      Extent: 237p.
      Note/s:
      • Publication date 01 August 2010
      ISBN: 9780980571790
    • Yarraville, Footscray - Maribyrnong area, Melbourne - West, Melbourne, Victoria,: Transit Lounge , 2011 .
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      Extent: 256p.
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      • Published: 1st September 2011
      ISBN: 9781921924132
    • Portland, Oregon,
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      Americas,
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      Hawthorne Books ,
      2014 .
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      Extent: 222p.
      Note/s:
      • Published: 11th February 2014
      ISBN: 9780989360401

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The Year's Work in Fiction : 2010-2011 David Whish-Wilson , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: Westerly , July vol. 56 no. 1 2011; (p. 167-188)

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The Picks of the Crop Jo Case , Chris Flynn , Morag Fraser , David McCooey , Maria Tumarkin , 2011 single work column
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 6 August 2011; (p. 26-27)
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— Appears in: Westside News , 18 May 2011; (p. 21)
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— Appears in: Mascara Literary Review , May no. 9 2011;

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— Appears in: Etchings , no. 9 2010; (p. 189-191)

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— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , August vol. 90 no. 1 2010; (p. 42)

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— Appears in: The Big Issue , 31 August - 13 September no. 362 2010; (p. 41)

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— Appears in: Sunday Canberra Times , 19 September 2010; (p. 26)

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Across the Great Divide Jo Case , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 18 September 2010; (p. 29)

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— Appears in: Etchings , no. 9 2010; (p. 189-191)

— Review of The Mary Smokes Boys Patrick Holland , 2010 single work novel
Patrick Holland Linda Morris , 2010 single work biography
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 21-22 August 2010; (p. 30)
Patrick Holland in Conversation with N A Bourke N. A. Bourke (interviewer), 2010 single work interview
— Appears in: Perilous Adventures , vol. 10 no. 3 2010;
Dreaming Country : A Murder and a Moonlit Field Spawned a Novel Fiona Purdon , 2010 single work column
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 18-19 September 2010; (p. 22)
Outback Tale on Award Shortlist 2011 single work column
— Appears in: Westside News , 18 May 2011; (p. 21)
The Picks of the Crop Jo Case , Chris Flynn , Morag Fraser , David McCooey , Maria Tumarkin , 2011 single work column
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 6 August 2011; (p. 26-27)
The judges of the 2011 Age Book of the Year Awards comment on each of the fifteen shortlisted titles. Morag Fraser and Maria Tumarkin comment on the non-fiction titles, David McCooey on the poetry titles and Jo Case and Chris Flynn on the fiction titles.
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