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Getting Warmer by Alan Carter

Fremantle Press, $29.99 pb, 352 pp, 9781922089205

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Fremantle is rapidly becoming a preferred setting for novelists seeking to explore the hidden costs of the mining boom. Within weeks of the publication of Tim Winton’s Eyrie, which is haunted by the crime and gritty emptiness of the city’s rough side, we now have Getting Warmer, Alan Carter’s second novel and the sequel to Prime Cut (2011).

 


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Getting Warmer by Alan Carter

Fremantle Press, $29.99 pb, 352 pp, 9781922089205

ABR receives a commission on items purchased through this link. All ABR reviews are fully independent.


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