- Title:
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Jack
- Written by:
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Judy Johnson
- Read by:
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Alan King
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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3
- Duration:
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3 hours 34 minutes
- Published:
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April 01 2008
- Available Date:
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May 14 2010
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781742013886
- Genres:
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Fiction; Australian; Historical Fiction; Psychological Fiction
- Publisher:
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Bolinda audio
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Price
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Winner Victorian Premier's Literary Awards / CJ Dennis Prize for Poetry 2007
"A 'wild mouse' of sea, sex and hallucination. Judy Johnson is a terrific storyteller."
Dorothy Porter
"Marked by a restraint that is a source of its disturbing force."
The Canberra Times
One-eyed Jack Falconer is a man with many secrets...
It's 1938, the eve of World War II, and a pearling lugger in the Torres Strait is the place he chooses to hide. But Jack's demons follow him out to sea and rise to the surface just as surely as the pearl shell his divers collect from the dangers of the deep. Embittered, intelligent and self-destructive, Jack's only way to prove himself is to compete with, defeat and destroy the very weaknesses he fears.
Set in the expansive and beautiful Coral Sea, Jack's provocative tale of a dangerous captain and his young crew at odds with the elements - and each other - holds the reader breathless until the very last page.
"The narrative is compelling, characters powerful, and the setting at once squalid and rich. The tension sustained here between a claustrophobic pearling lugger and the seductive tropical seas is unrelenting."
The Victorian Premier's Awards