http://content.boomerangbooks.com.au/content/main/giveaway.shtml Book GiveawayWe have a great book pack to giveaway, containing the co-winning titles in the 2010 The Australian/Vogel Literary Award - Night Street by Kristel Thornell
http://www.boomerangbooks.com.au/Night-Street/Kristel-Thornell/book_9781742373362.htmand Utopian Man by Lisa Lang - courtesy of Allen and Unwin.
http://www.boomerangbooks.com.au/Utopian-Man/Lisa-Lang/book_9781742373348.htm To enter complete the entry form below. (Easy Entry)Entries close at 5pm on Tuesday 19 October 2010.
Night Street - Night Street is the passionate story of a young painter, Clarice Beckett, who defies society's strict conventions and indifferent art critics alike and leads an intense private and professional life. With her extraordinary talent for making simple city and seascapes haunting and mysteriously revelatory, Clarice paints prolifically. Night Street began with Thornell's first encounter with the paintings of Melbourne artist Clarice Beckett (1887-1935) at the Art Gallery of South Australia. The subtle power of Clarice's highly atmospheric, enigmatic landscapes enabled her to imagine Clarice's inner life and shape an extraordinary novel.
Utopian Man - It's the 1880s. Marvellous Melbourne is a lavish and raucous city where anything could happen. Eccentric entrepreneur Edward William Cole is building the sprawling Cole's Book Arcade and filling it with whatever amuses him, or supports his favourite causes: a giant squid, a brass band, monkeys, a black man whose skin has turned white, a Chinese tea salon, and of course, hundreds of thousands of books. When Edward decides to marry he advertises for a wife in the newspaper, shocking and titillating the whole town. To everyone's surprise he marries his broadsheet bride and the Arcade grows into a monumental success. But in the 1890s depression hits Melbourne - and Edward - hard, and the death of one of his children leaves him reeling. Grief, corruption and a beautiful, unscrupulous widow all threaten to derail his singular vision. But it's not until he visits Chinatown one night - and his own deeply suppressed past - that the idealist faces his toughest challenge. Utopian Man is the story of a man who lives life on his own terms, and leaves behind a remarkable legacy.
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