The Resource Minotaur, Peter Goldsworthy
Minotaur, Peter Goldsworthy
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The item Minotaur, Peter Goldsworthy represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.
This item is available to borrow from 2 library branches.
- Summary
- Detective Sergeant Rick Zadow is angry, unmotivated, unwashed, unkempt, and almost entirely reliant on his guide dog, Scout, and voice-controlled personal assistant Siri to make it through each day: one a voice without a body, the other a body without a voice. Left blind after a bullet wound to the head two years before, he is caught up in a workers' compensation battle between two psychiatrists - one acting for him, and one appointed by WorkCover - over how much compo he should be awarded. Reminders of his former life keep on tripping Rick up. His wife has moved out, and another former passion of his life - a legendary Ducati motorbike he was halfway through restoring - sits abandoned in the back shed. All of which is the background to the central story: the breakout from jail of the man who shot him, and who is seeking to finish the job . . . Part laugh-out-loud comedy, part deadly serious study of revenge, part love story, this unique novel from one of our finest writers is also a slow, crabwise journey of self-discovery. As Rick navigates his sense-world (smell, sound, touch, taste . . . and finally, sight), there is a sixth sense he must also learn to trust - his gut instinct - which might just turn out to be his best
- Language
- eng
- Label
- Minotaur
- Title
- Minotaur
- Statement of responsibility
- Peter Goldsworthy
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Detective Sergeant Rick Zadow is angry, unmotivated, unwashed, unkempt, and almost entirely reliant on his guide dog, Scout, and voice-controlled personal assistant Siri to make it through each day: one a voice without a body, the other a body without a voice. Left blind after a bullet wound to the head two years before, he is caught up in a workers' compensation battle between two psychiatrists - one acting for him, and one appointed by WorkCover - over how much compo he should be awarded. Reminders of his former life keep on tripping Rick up. His wife has moved out, and another former passion of his life - a legendary Ducati motorbike he was halfway through restoring - sits abandoned in the back shed. All of which is the background to the central story: the breakout from jail of the man who shot him, and who is seeking to finish the job . . . Part laugh-out-loud comedy, part deadly serious study of revenge, part love story, this unique novel from one of our finest writers is also a slow, crabwise journey of self-discovery. As Rick navigates his sense-world (smell, sound, touch, taste . . . and finally, sight), there is a sixth sense he must also learn to trust - his gut instinct - which might just turn out to be his best
- Cataloging source
- AU@
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1951-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Goldsworthy, Peter
- Dewey number
- A823.4
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- novels
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Police
- Blindness
- Blind
- Ex-police officers
- Stalking victims
- Target audience
- general
- Label
- Minotaur, Peter Goldsworthy
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000064493415
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 326 pages
- Isbn
- 9780143795698
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1078403971
- Label
- Minotaur, Peter Goldsworthy
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000064493415
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 326 pages
- Isbn
- 9780143795698
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1078403971
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