Fresh Fields
Peter Kocan, . . Europa, $14.95 (288pp) ISBN 978-1-933372-29-7
Australian writer Kocan, who spent 10 years imprisoned for attempted murder, unflinchingly renders the isolation, grief and longing of a troubled outsider in this dire, semiautobiographical novel. Having fled a violent home with his mother and younger brother, an unnamed 14-year-old soon finds himself on his own. He drifts between Sydney and brief jobs in the bush, often lost in the expanses of his mind. He pours his heart into the objects of his imagination, including Grace Kelly, whom he calls "Sweetheart," and Diestl, who is probably Marlon Brando's character from
Reviewed on: 03/12/2007
Genre: Fiction
Other - 147 pages - 978-1-60945-176-9
Paperback - 380 pages - 978-0-7322-7985-1