by Gregory Day
Trace (with photographs by Robert Ashton)
The Patron Saint of Eels
The Flash Road: Scenes from the Building of the Great Ocean Road
Ron McCoy’s Sea of Diamonds
The Grand Hotel
Visitors (engravings by Jiri Tibor Novak)
Archipelago of Souls
A Smile at Arm’s Length (engravings by Jiri Tibor Novak)
This is a work of fiction. Characters, institutions and organisations mentioned in this novel are either the product of the author’s imagination or, if real, used fictitiously without any intent to describe actual conduct.
First published 2018 in Picador by Pan Macmillan Australia Pty Ltd
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Copyright © Gregory Day 2018
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Extracts from the following are reproduced with permission from the publishers:
p.vii: Seamus Heaney, ‘From the Canton of Expectation’, The Haw Lantern, Faber and Faber Ltd, 1987.
p.101: Helene Cixous, First Days of the Year, translated by Catherine A.F. Macgillivray, the University of Minnesota Press. Copyright 2008 by the Regents of the University of Minnesota.
pp.208–9: Courtesy of the artist and Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney.
p.209: Bill McCormick, ‘Sartre and Camus On Nature’, The Trumpeter, 13(1), 1996, http://trumpeter.athabascau.ca/index.php/trumpet/article/view/275/1308
p.228: ‘Women planting marram grass’ image, from Deakin University Library Special Collections.
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