From the image of a small boy entranced by his mother's GI Escort yet still hoping for the return of a father 'missing in action' to the portrait of an adult writer trying to piece together a defining image of his late father these outstanding stories conjure up with sharp intensity the memories & events that make a man. These powerfully vivid stories range over more than a century of Australian life from green tropical lushness to 'blacksoil country' from scrub & outback to city streets
- evoking dark shadows beneath a bright sun & lives shaped by the ghosts of history & the rhythms of unruly nature.