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Title: DRY SEASON
By: Dan Smith
Format: Paperback

List price: £10.99


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ISBN 10: 1409108228
ISBN 13: 9781409108221
Publisher: ORION PUBLISHING CO
Pub. date: 18 February, 2010
Pages: 384
Description: A powerful and moving debut novel of one man's search for redemption deep in the badlands of South America...
Synopsis: On the banks of a sprawling Brazilian river lies Sao Tiago. A place poised between the old ways and the new, fought over by gangsters and big business. It's a town for people with nowhere else to run; a place where Sam, a former priest, has ended up. He left England to help people, but what he's seen has scarred him, and now he cares about nothing except drinking and fishing on the great river. But one night changes all that. When a man lies bleeding on a dirt floor, what starts as a fight to save a life becomes a battle with Sao Tiago's dark heart. Caught between friends and enemies, and entangled in the affections of an ex-prostitute and a predatory landowner's wife, Sam realises that in a place where life is cheap, love can be deadly. As the long dry season stretches out ahead, Sam must face his past if he is to forge the chance of a future and survive in a town without a soul. Drawing on influences as disparate as HEART OF DARKNESS and the tales of the American West, it's a novel of shocking strength, populated with vivid characters, wild settings and raw emotion.A dark and compelling story, steeped in violence and rich in atmosphere, DRY SEASON is one of the most powerful and memorable debuts of the year.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Prizes: Short-listed for Authors' Club Best First Novel Award 2011
Returns: Returnable
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