- Title:
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Sleeping Dogs
- Written by:
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Sonya Hartnett
- Read by:
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Kate Hosking
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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4
- Duration:
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4 hours 3 minutes
- Published:
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October 01 2003
- Available Date:
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October 01 2003
- Age Category:
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Young Adult (15+)
- ISBN:
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1740943694
- APN / ISBN-13:
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9781740943697
- Genres:
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Fiction; Australian Fiction; Psychological Fiction; Young Adult Fiction
- Publisher:
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Bolinda audio
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Winner Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Book of the Year / Older Readers 1996
Winner Kathleen Mitchell Award for Young Writers 1996
Shortlisted NSW Premier's Literary Awards 1996
Winner Victorian Premier's Literary Awards / Prize for Young Adult Fiction 1996
Shortlisted New South Wales State Literary Award 1996
"Fascinating and disturbing, this chilling story reveals how morality can be twisted by obsessive family loyalty."
Publishers Weekly
From the award-winning author of Thursday's Child.
'We must be ruthless', Edward snarls, 'because we lead ruthless lives: you, of anyone, should understand that. This is our existence, Jordan, this house, this land, that father, that mother - there's no pity, there's no mercy, there's probably no escape. It is hard, Jordan, and we have to be hard to survive it, and the best we can do is fight anything that threatens to make it worse.'
"Alcoholic, abusive Griffin Willow lives with his emotionally distant wife and their five deeply disturbed children on a run-down farm in rural Australia. They run a tourist trailer park that guests never visit twice. Kate Hosking's performance gives this grim story an objective distance that listeners will appreciate. Hosking's sultry voice with its matter-of-fact yet ominous delivery brings an unsentimental pathos to the brutality of everyday living. The Willows's hardscrabble existence includes violence, incest, murder, and madness, each as common as the bloody slaughtering of sheep or the snarling of vicious dogs. Hartnett's bleak portrait of loneliness and survival and Hosking's intelligent narration paint a tragic picture, terrible in its realism."
AudioFile Magazine