once upon a bad time

ISBN-13: 9781548177614 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 344 str.

Mr Graham Alexander King

Opis

Leon Spar came to Detour looking for oblivion at the end of the road, instead he found a hell where men, nature and the supernatural collide in regular catastrophe. A no-mans land, that like the lonely beach he escapes too at night, separates two giant worlds from ever meeting. One is a landscape blistered by legends and as brutal as the desert heat, the other is a tidal force ferocious with an earth-soaked curse. And between the real and the surreal he discovers the hard-working manufacture of man's ignorance, and the transformation that will challenge his life. From larger than life Aussie characters in a desperate underworld of a smugglers paradise, against an unforgiving outback where nature can turn on a man in the blink of an eye. To the mirage of 'modern' and 'civilised' when there is no safe passage left, and nowhere left to hide. Once Upon a Bad Time is an Australian adventure as epic as the Dream-time myths of the Great Southern Land. Where once nomadic tribes reined supreme with their gods, now just the odd, remote town clings to an existence, in a sunburnt land deformed by centuries of Aboriginal superstitions. A few will survive, most will be swallowed alive...