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Author

Patrick Allington

Patrick Allington is a writer and editor. His fiction includes the novel Figurehead, which was longlisted for the 2010 Miles Franklin Literary Award, as well as short stories published in Meanjin, Griffith Review, The Big Issue and elsewhere. His nonfiction and criticism have also appeared widely. Patrick is a former commissioning editor of the University of Adelaide Press. He has taught politics, communications, writing and editing, most recently at Flinders University. He lives in the Adelaide foothills with his family.

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Title:

Rise & Shine (MP3)

Written by:

Patrick Allington 

Read by:

Humphrey Bower 

Format:

Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book 

Number of CDs:

1 

Duration:

6 hours 30 minutes 

MP3 size:

281 MB 

Published:

November 01 2020 

Available Date:

November 01 2020 

Age Category:

Adult 

ISBN:

9781867500353 

Genres:

Fiction; Australian Fiction; Contemporary Fiction 

Publisher:

Bolinda audio 

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AUD$ 34.95

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Australian author

'Narrator Humphrey Bower is the glue that keeps this work of speculative fiction together. After an apocalypse, an endless war breaks out. The population that remains finds literal sustenance in witnessing daily news footage of the fighting. There are a plethora of moments when a leader and his right-hand man verbally spar. In these moments, Bower is at his best. The raspy, defeated voice of the leader switches midstream to the peppy, joyful voice of his assistant. Listeners can't help but feel as though they are eavesdropping on intimate moments between two people who have a shorthand for communication. Due to the unique and unstructured writing style of this work, the audiobook will make for a more fulfilling experience than the print version.'
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Each morning, the last humans start their day with graphic footage from the front. This is what sustains them – literally.

In a world where eight billion souls have perished, the survivors huddle together apart, perpetually at war, in the city-states of Rise and Shine. Yet this war, far from representing their doom, is their means of survival. For their leaders have found the key to life when crops, livestock and the very future have been blighted – a key that turns on each citizen being moved by human suffering. Yet is this small hope, this compassion, enough to sustain them against the despair born of all the friends they’ve lost, all the experiences they’ll never know? Or must they succumb to, or even embrace, darker desires? Rise & Shine is a tale that speaks to our troubled times, a Kafkaesque fable of hope from the imagination of Miles Franklin nominee Patrick Allington.

‘You never knew fiction could do this.’
Jane Rawson

‘A novel of rare visionary brilliance, Rise & Shine blew me away.’
Bram Presser

‘Fiercely imaginative and astonishingly written.’
Robbie Arnott, Author of The Rain Heron