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Bitter Wash Road
by Disher, Garry
- Used
- Very Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1922079243
- ISBN 13
- 9781922079244
- Seller
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Simi Valley, California, United States
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About This Item
Text Publishing Co, 2013-10-23. Paperback. Very Good. 1.1024 9.4488 6.1417.
Reviews
On Jan 21 2015, CloggieDownunder said:
Bitter Wash Road is the eighteenth stand-alone novel by popular Australian author, Garry Disher. It has also been published under the title Hell To Pay. Not long after Constable Paul Hirschhausen has been banished to the small South Australian wheatbelt town of Tiverton for the unforgiveable (being a whistle-blower), he is called to attend an apparent hit-and-run. But, despite the scorn of his superiors, to Hirsch, something feels not quite right. And when, a few weeks later, he discovers the body of a woman who has committed suicide, he is again plagued with doubt.
In Hirsch, Disher has created a central character who is both likeable and believable, flawed yet principled. Disher expertly conveys the atmosphere of the outback town with evocative descriptions that will have the reader tasting the dust in the back of the throat and feeling the boredom and despair. His cast of townspeople will be familiar to anyone who has visited such a place.
Disher gives the reader an original plot that somehow realistically includes a network of paeophiles, a wind farm, an inheritance, some subtle (and not so subtle) threats, pair of fugitive murder-rapists, planted evidence, domestic violence, a pair of cops who delight in harassment of old people, young girls and aborigines, adultery, jealousy, football, drinking and brawling, and a red herring or two to keep everyone guessing. While this is a stand-alone novel, Hirschhausen is an appealing character of whom readers are bound to want more. Once again, Disher does not disappoint.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Schwabe Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- mon0002985464
- Title
- Bitter Wash Road
- Author
- Disher, Garry
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 1922079243
- ISBN 13
- 9781922079244
- Publisher
- Text Publishing Co
- Place of Publication
- Melbourne
- Date Published
- 2013-10-23
- Size
- 1.1024 9.4488 6.1417
- Bookseller catalogs
- Book;
- X weight
- 0.9700 lb
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