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The red hand : stories, reflections and the last appearance of Jack Irish

Author :  Peter Temple

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Country
Australia
Publisher
Text Publishing Company, Australia
ISBN 9781922268273
Format PaperBack
Language English
Year of Publication 2019
Bib. Info 387 pages ; 24 cm
Categories PR - English literature
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Peter Temple didn’t start publishing novels until he was fifty, but then he got cracking, writing nine of them in thirteen years. When he died, in March 2018, there was an unfinished Jack Irish novel in his drawer. This substantial fragment, entitled High Art, reveals a writer at the peak of his powers. The Red Hand also includes the screenplay of the ABC telemovie Valentine’s Day, an improbably delightful tale about an ailing country football club, as well as stories, essays, autobiographical reflections, and a selection of Temple’s brilliant book reviews. What connects them all is his trademark wit, his ruthless intelligence, and his abiding love of his adopted homeland of Australia. Peter Temple held crime writing up to the light and, with his poet’s ear and eye, made it his own incomparable thing. His work transcends all notions of genre: he remains a towering presence in contemporary Australian literature. This wonderful book pays tribute to all the achievements of the master. Irish, Jack, (Fictitious character) -- Fiction. | Australian essays. | Books -- Reviews. | Literature. | Private investigators -- Australia -- Fiction. | Criminal investigation -- Australia -- Fiction. | Australian

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