Author

Contributions

  • Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales. - Contributor

Publication

2008 - University of Western Australia Press in association with the Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales, Crawley, Western Australia

Language

English

Word Count

67,500 words, Guess

Page Count

270 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139781921401206
  • ISBN-101921401206
  • Library of Congress Control Number2009294633
  • OCLC Control Number262434641
  • Better World Books9781921401206
and 1 more

Classifications

  • DDC823/.914
  • LCCPR9619.3.G525 S86 2008

Description

"An experimental novel written in diary form, it is clearly a work of fiction. Yet it is also illustrated with over 170 photographs, based on real historical events, and firmly rooted in the real-life, day-to-day procedure of policemen in post-WWII Sydney. The plot has all the usual crime novel ingredients--sex, drugs, violence, corruption--but this book is anything but generic. Our diarist narrator is a priest stationed at Central police station, who each day, completes his summer exercises, in which he records thoughts, overheard conversations, and seemingly anything else that occurs to him." -- Provided by publisher.

Subjects

Topics

CrimeFictionHistorySydney (N.S.W.) -- FictionCrime -- Australia -- Sydney (N.S.W.) -- Fiction

Genres

  • Fiction

Series Statement

  • University of Western Australia Press new writing series

Other Editions

  • The summer exercisesUniversity of Western Australia Press in association with the Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales2008

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