The summer exercises
By: Ross Gibson.
Contributors: Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales.
Series: University of Western Australia Press new writing series; University of Western Australia Press new writing series
Publisher: University of Western Australia Press in association with the Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales
Published: 2008
Place of publication: [Crawley]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9781921401206
Subjects: Crime -- Australia -- Sydney (N.S.W.) -- Fiction; Sydney (N.S.W.) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Description: "An experimental novel written in diary form, it is clearly a work of fiction. Yet it is also illustrated with over 170 photographs, based on real historical events, and firmly rooted in the real-life, day-to-day procedure of policemen in post-WWII Sydney. The plot has all the usual crime novel ingredients--sex, drugs, violence, corruption--but this book is anything but generic. Our diarist narrator is a priest stationed at Central police station, who each day, completes his summer exercises, in which he records thoughts, overheard conversations, and seemingly anything else that occurs to him." -- Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 393-397) and index.