Hare's fur

Resource Information

The work Hare's fur represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Hare's fur

Statement of responsibility

Trevor Shearston

Creator

• Shearston, Trevor

Author

• Shearston, Trevor

Subject

• Potters -- Fiction
• Runaway children -- Fiction
• Teenage girls -- Fiction
• Trust -- Fiction
• Australian fiction
• Widowers -- Fiction
• Blue Mountains (N.S.W.) -- Fiction

Genre

• Fiction
• Australian fiction

Language

eng

Summary

Russell Bass is a potter living on the edge of Katoomba, in the Blue Mountains. His wife has been dead less than a year and, although he has a few close friends, he is living a mostly solitary life. Each month he hikes into the valley below his house to collect rock for glazes from a remote creek bed. One autumn morning, he finds a chocolate wrapper on the path. His curiosity leads him to a cave where three siblings - two young children and a teenage girl - are camped out, hiding from social services and the police. Although they bolt at first, Russell slowly gains their trust, and, little by little, this unlikely group of outsiders begin to form a fragile bond. In luminous prose that captures the feel of hands on clay and the smell of cold rainforest as vividly as it does the minute twists and turns of human relationships, Hare's fur tells an exquisite story of grief, kindness, art, and the transformation that can grow from the seeds of trust

Cataloging source

AUNRT

Index

no index present

Literary form

fiction