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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Macadam Cage Pub
Publication date May 10, 2005
Pages 247
Binding Hardcover
Book category Adult Fiction
ISBN-13 9781596921160
ISBN-10 1596921161
Dimensions 1.25 by 5.25 by 8 in.
Weight 0.85 lbs.
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Original list price $23.00
§As reported by publisher
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Summary
In the story of a boy who escapes his family's farm in Australia to become caretaker of a horse, a destructive love affair with a young American woman ultimately leads him back to where he began and to a revelation of his past.
Amazon.com description: Product Description: Day's mother died with her eyes wide open in 1947, near Maude, New South Wales. No doctor was called. Day watched his father drop her body into the red earth wrapped in a feed sack. He was only twelve. When he rode up Muddy Gates Lane, away from there, he didn't know that he was leaving, but he was sure he wasn't coming back.

Day's journey took him to America, traveling as groom for a horse called Unusual. On the Eastern Shore of Maryland he meets Callie, who wants to be the world's first woman jockey. There is no doubt in her eyes, she knows about things that Day has never seen. He is stranded by a love for Callie that takes him back to the harshness of his childhood in Australia, to the dark secrets of his family.

An exquisitely crafted and poignant story that reveals David Francis as a writer with an extraordinary gift for language.

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Hardcover
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from Macadam Cage Pub (May 10, 2005)
9781596921160 | details & prices | 247 pages | 5.25 × 8.00 × 1.25 in. | 0.85 lbs | List price $23.00
About: In the story of a boy who escapes his family's farm in Australia to become caretaker of a horse, a destructive love affair with a young American woman ultimately leads him back to where he began and to a revelation of his past.
Paperback
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Reprint edition from Lawson Library (April 10, 2006)
9781596921801 | details & prices | 247 pages | 5.25 × 8.00 × 0.75 in. | 0.60 lbs | List price $13.00
About: In the story of a boy who escapes his family's farm in Australia to become caretaker of a horse, a destructive love affair with a young American woman ultimately leads him back to where he began and to a revelation of his past.

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