The Low Road (novel)
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| Author | Chris Womersley |
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| Country | Australia |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Novel |
| Publisher | Scribe, Melbourne |
Publication date | 2007 |
| Media type | Print Paperback |
| Pages | 280 pp |
| ISBN | ISBN 978-1-921215-47-6 (first edition, paperback) |
| OCLC | 174109815 |
The Low Road is a 2007 Ned Kelly Award winning novel by the Australian author Chris Womersley.
Awards
- Victorian Premier's Literary Award, Prize for an Unpublished Manuscript by an Emerging Victorian Writer, 2006: shortlisted
- Ned Kelly Awards for Crime Writing, Best First Novel, 2008: winner
Notes
- Dedication: "For my mother, my brother and my sister, who know something of the roads I have travelled."
- Epigraph: "A man's character is his fate." - Heraclitus, On the Universe.
- Epigraph:
- "And what the dead had no speech for, when living
- They can tell you, being dead: the communication
- Of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living." - T.S.Eliot, Little Gidding.