{"product_id":"a-sand-archive-by-gregory-day-9781760552145","title":"A Sand Archive","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWinner of the Patrick White Literary Award\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLong before I ever met him I knew his name from the leaky desiccated type of a grey-brown slim volume, cheaply printed but essential to my research...\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSeeking stories of Australia's Great Ocean Road, a young writer stumbles across a manual from a minor player in the road's history, FB Herschell. It is a volume unremarkable in every way, save for the surprising portrait of its author that can be read between its lines: a vision of a man who writes with uncanny poetry about sand.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAnd as he continues to mine the archive of FB Herschell—engineer, historian, philosopher—it is not the subject, but the man who begins to fascinate. A man whose private revolution among the streets of Paris in May 1968 begins to change the way he views life, love, and the coastal landscape into which he was born...\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eShortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2019\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for \u003cem\u003eA Sand Archive\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"So beautiful, so subtle...a story told with rare tenderness and restraint. FB Herschell is one of the great characters of Australian literature.\" — Carrie Tiffany\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"A bravura work\" — Michelle de Kretser\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Day has written a ripper of a novel here\" — Readings\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Effortlessly combines the erudition of two rarely yoked disciplines: engineering and literature [and] harnesses technical language to convincingly lyrical ends.\" — Sydney Morning Herald\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"The novel is an elegiac meditation on worlds changed by natural processes and human forces. Ultimately, through Herschell's character, it provides a model for the kind of rigorous and poetic attentiveness that might best honour the profundities of our landscapes and the lives we experience alongside them.\" — The Saturday Paper\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Macmillan Publishers New Zealand Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48240669753580,"sku":"9781760552145","price":24.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781760552145-a-sand-archive-1.jpg?v=1787923302","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/a-sand-archive-by-gregory-day-9781760552145","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}