{"product_id":"coming-rain-by-stephen-daisley-68w","title":"Coming Rain by Stephen Daisley","description":"\u003cp\u003eMoving and brilliant.-Australian Book Review  Daisley's prose possesses a shimmering, allusive beauty reminiscent of John McGahern.-Weekend Australian  Coming Rain shimmers with dusty red heat. . . . Tune in to the distinctive rhythm of the prose and you'll enjoy the rich, subtle rewards of a really good book.-Listener  Western Australia, the wheatbelt. Lew McLeod has been travelling and working with Painter Hayes since he was a boy. Shearing, charcoal burning-whatever comes. Painter made him his first pair of shoes. It's a hard and uncertain life, but it's the only one he knows.  But Lew's a grown man now. And with this latest job, shearing for John Drysdale and his daughter Clara, everything will change.  Stephen Daisley writes in lucid, rippling prose of how things work, and why; of the profound satisfaction in hard work done with care, of love and friendship and the damage that both contain.  Both brutal and poignant, this is an unforgettable novel for fans of Cormac McCarthy, Richard Ford, and Kent Haruf.  Stephen Daisley has worked on sheep and cattle stations, on oil and gas rigs, and driving trucks. His first novel, Traitor, won the 2011 Prime Minister's Literary Award.  Editorial Reviews  11\/15\/2016 Winner of the Prime Minister's Literary Award for 2011's Traitor, his first novel, New Zealand-born, Australia-based Daisley returns with a brutally beautiful tale unfolding on the violent outer edge of civilization. In the 1950s, Lewis McCleod travels around Western Australia's wheatbelt with seen-everything, done-everything Painter Hayes, who took him on as an apprentice at age 11 because his mother had too many mouths to feed. Now they've arrived at John Drysdale's property to shear sheep, bringing along the joey whose mother they hit and killed on the way. They give the joey to Drysdale's daughter, Clara, whose father scorns her tender love for all her dogs when only one dog would suffice. Meanwhile, the dingo who saw Lew and Painter hit the mother kangaroo trails them for reasons of her own. Eventually, the growing attraction between Lew and Clara, her father's hardened ways, and the presence of the nursing dingo lead to a bloody, obdurate clash of wills. VERDICT Forthright, sparely perfect writing about an uneasy world; for readers who don't want spoon-feeding. - Library Journal\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41827075522634,"sku":"68w","price":11.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/68w_1_79bf125c-9fdd-41fe-8500-da0f5d4614d2.jpg?v=1764404012","url":"https:\/\/www.bookexpress.nz\/products\/coming-rain-by-stephen-daisley-68w","provider":"Book Express","version":"1.0","type":"link"}