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Lee, a young petty criminal, wakes in a seedy motel with a bullet in his side and a suitcase of stolen money, his memory hazy as to how he got there. Soon, he meets Wild, a doctor who is escaping his own disastrous life, and the two men set out for the safety of the countryside. As they flee the city, they develop an uneasy intimacy, inevitably revisiting their pasts—Lee is haunted by a brief stint in jail, while Wild is on the run from medical malpractice. However, Lee and Wild are pursued through an increasingly alien and gothic landscape by the aging gangster Josef, who must retrieve the stolen money and deal with Lee to ensure his own survival. Ultimately, all three men are forced to confront the parts of themselves they sought to outrun. Part noir thriller, part modern tale of alienation and despair, this novel is an unrelentingly dark story of addiction, regret, and failed dreams.
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Chris Womersley is the recipient of the Josephine Ulrick Literature Prize and the Ned Kelly Award for Best First Book. His fiction and reviews have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including the Age, Best Australian Stories 2006, Best Australian Stories 2010, Granta New Writing 14, and the Monthly.
“Womersley's taut, almost monosyllabic prose creates a relentless momentum as it plunges into a black dreamscape with echoes of Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, Samuel Beckett, Horace McCoy, Georges Simenon and Philip K. Dick... This is writing you often stop to read aloud.”--The Australian
“The Low Road is richly and powerfully written. It is also an almost unbearably intense, tragic, and unrelentingly dark story of addiction, regret, despair, and failed dreams that left this reader mightily impressed.”--Bookseller & Publisher
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- PublisherScribe Publications Pty Ltd.
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 192121547X
- ISBN 13 9781921215476
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages288
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