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| + | |title=The Narrow Road to the Deep North | ||
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| + | |summary= Dorrigo Evans was born in Cleveland, Tasmania, in the years just after the First World War, and overcame his lower-class origins to become a surgeon. In the novel's present day, he is a 77-year-old war hero writing a preface to the sketchbook a fellow POW kept on the Death Railway. 'Horror can be contained within a book, given form and meaning. But in life horror has no more form than it does meaning,' he eventually writes. | ||
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We were having a discussion the other day about how there are lots of TV shows about doctors and lots about lawyers, but other professions, say accountants or vets or dentists, get less of a look in. Just not as sexy, we thought. Just not as funny. Then this book came along and, in an extremely timely manner, changed my mind entirely. This is the stuff sitcoms could be made of. | We were having a discussion the other day about how there are lots of TV shows about doctors and lots about lawyers, but other professions, say accountants or vets or dentists, get less of a look in. Just not as sexy, we thought. Just not as funny. Then this book came along and, in an extremely timely manner, changed my mind entirely. This is the stuff sitcoms could be made of. | ||
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Revision as of 07:04, 15 October 2014
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