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'The story of two brothers from ‘The Springs’ (a fictional former spa town near Brisbane) – one a soldier peacekeeper with the UN and one a sculptor.
Set in 1993 in northern Africa (Morocco, Western Sahara and Algeria) and in the US years later, it follows the journey of Sebastian (Bas), the sculptor brother, who must go in search of his missing brother, Jack. His journey is a modern-day Heart of Darkness as he travels into the dangerous, war-torn, desert interior of northern Africa to discover what happened to his brother. What he finds there is not quite what he was expecting and has shocking consequences for him and his family.
Through the story of two very different brothers, raised as Catholics, the novel delves into the rise of fundamentalist Islam and its culmination in the terrorist attacks of 9/11.
However, the novel belongs to Bas who, through sculpting stone, attempts to find redemption from the dreadful events he witnesses in the desert in 1993.' Source: http://www.uqp.uq.edu.au/ (Sighted 08/03/2012).
Notes
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Dedication:
To Sue Cleary and in memory of John Cleary
And of course
Alisa
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Epigraph:
'You almost expect,
when you touch this body,
to find it warm.'
Auguste Rodin
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Large print.
Works about this Work
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Recommended Reading from UQP
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: Contact , Winter 2013; (p. 42)
— Review of Hear Me Roar : The Story of a Stay-at-Home Dad 2012 single work autobiography ; Closer to Stone 2012 single work novel -
[Review] My Island Homicide, Closer to Home, Cold Light
2012
single work
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— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 5 September 2012; (p. 1, 4, 22) -
Keeping Local Stories Alive
2012
single work
column
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 28-29 July 2012; (p. 4-5) -
Unbowed, Book Lovers Script Their Own Awards
2012
single work
column
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 27 July 2012; (p. 7) -
No Way Back from War and Terror
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 5-6 May 2012; (p. 33)
— Review of Closer to Stone 2012 single work novel
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Journey across the Sand Sea
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 17 March 2012; (p. 25)
— Review of Closer to Stone 2012 single work novel -
Off the Shelf : Fiction
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 31 March 2012; (p. 30)
— Review of Closer to Stone 2012 single work novel -
Dying Inside
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , April no. 340 2012; (p. 42)
— Review of Closer to Stone 2012 single work novel -
Well Read
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 24 March 2012; (p. 20)
— Review of Closer to Stone 2012 single work novel -
Extreme Devotion
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 14 - 15 April 2012; (p. 20-21)
— Review of Closer to Stone 2012 single work novel -
Unbowed, Book Lovers Script Their Own Awards
2012
single work
column
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 27 July 2012; (p. 7) -
Keeping Local Stories Alive
2012
single work
column
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 28-29 July 2012; (p. 4-5) -
[Review] My Island Homicide, Closer to Home, Cold Light
2012
single work
column
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 5 September 2012; (p. 1, 4, 22)
Awards
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- North Africa, Africa,
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