The Voices

by Elderkin, Susan

• ISBN13: 9780802117571
• ISBN10: 0802117570
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-10-01
• Publisher: Pgw

Summary

Susan Elderkin, one of Granta's "Best Young Writers" is a story of one west Australian boy's connection to nature and traditional aboriginal ways, and how it changes his life.

Table of Contents

PROLOGUE	1	(8)
it comes from the inland desert	3	(6)
PART I
the largest pair of knees	9	(4)
here is a town	13	(5)
something torn	18	(4)
we've been thinking	22	(3)
the clangers	25	(8)
look who's here	33	(8)
PART II
a gap in her orderly heart	41	(6)
early man versus kylie minogue	47	(6)
the coffee shop pings	53	(2)
a nice fat bundle	55	(1)
every crushed beer can	56	(2)
beneath the belly	58	(5)
the wowser	63	(5)
a fist flies out	68	(4)
full moon rains	72	(3)
PART III
he shivers and sweats	75	(6)
a vast, ancient heart	81	(5)
the pink cockatoos	86	(4)
lace-trimmed bra and matching knickers	90	(3)
little brother to ayers	93	(2)
stretching his shadow	95	(4)
the chasm	99	(6)
PART IV
the longest serving inmate	105	(4)
tonight's main headline	109	(7)
the learned professor	116	(6)
a real dunny	122	(8)
the air is spiked	130	(2)
the existence of frogs	132	(3)
the perfect arc	135	(1)
a filthy puddle	136	(1)
the whole bloody axle	137	(8)
PART V
quite some yarning	145	(3)
a feed like that	148	(12)
west of sydney	160	(4)
your little tin heart	164	(4)
it is dark and dank	168	(2)
the signal to jump	170	(4)
the Oxley moron	174	(7)
a new skin	181	(1)
who stole my batteries?	182	(2)
noises	184	(5)
PART VI
nowhere in the landscape	189	(14)
thirty kays south	203	(1)
go, Cathy, go!	204	(7)
from deep down rossco's gullet	211	(3)
more noises	214	(3)
grog	217	(4)
the language of the underworld	221	(4)
how to eat a cow	225	(3)
who's a pretty boy, then?	228	(5)
not unless dogs can fly	233	(2)
put yourselves in our shoes	235	(10)
PART VII
the outbreak of intergalactic war	245	(10)
any picaninnies here?	255	(5)
a load of bloody savages	260	(4)
the creaking of insects	264	(5)
as if a ghost has passed through	269	(3)
the last laaa	272	(11)
PART VIII
a large fire stoked	283	(9)
the bush tucker tour	292	(5)
a secret from the world	297	(8)
i hope this finds you	305	(2)
this is my band	307	(2)
the only one who steps out into the rain	309	(8)
it moves on	317	(4)
EPILOGUE
the voices	321