The Art of the Engine Driver

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<p><i>There they are, still as a photograph, listening for the distant thud of the sun as it prepares to drop from the sky...</i> <i></i> <i></i>On a hot summer's night, a family of three are off to a party in their bristling suburbia. But nothing is as it seems and soon we are walking with them through the past lives of a bully, a drunk and a disaffected youth.</p><p>As the story of the neighbourhood unfolds the old and the new, diesel and steam, town and country all collide - and nobody will be left unaffected.</p><p><i>The Art of the Engine Driver</i>is a luminous and evocative take on ordinary suburban lives told with an extraordinary power and depth.</p>

Autorenportrait

Steven Carroll was born in Melbourne. His first novel,<i>Remember Me, Jimmy James</i>, was published in 1992.<i>The Art of the Engine Driver</i>(2001) and<i>The Gift of Speed</i>(2004) were shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award, which the final book in the trilogy,<i>The Time We Have Taken</i>,<i></i>won in 2008. Steven Carroll lives in Melbourne with his partner and son.

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