The paperbark shoe
By: Goldie Goldbloom
Edition: 1st Picador ed.
Publisher: Picador
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 373
ISBN-13: 9780312674502
Subjects: Prisoners of war; Farmers' spouses; Women pianists; Fiction; Farms; Italians; Albinos and albinism; Pianists; Farm life
Work titles: Toads' museum of freaks and wonders
Description: In the wake of a thwarted career as a concert pianist and the accompanying emotional fallout, Gin accepts a marriage proposal from the peculiar Mr. Toad. But nothing from the albino Gin Toad's upbringing in the bourgeois drawing rooms of Perth has prepared her for a hardscrabble existence on a subsistence farm in the Australian outback.
Notes: Previously published as Toads' museum of freaks and wonders by New Issues (Kalamazoo, Mich.) in 2010.

"A novel"--Cover.