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Fiction

White light

by Alice Bishop
February 2014, no. 358

White Light by Mark O'Flynn

Spineless Wonders, $22.99 pb, 150 pp, 9780987254627

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White Light pieces together fragments of a colourful Australian suburbia: a bat-featured baby born to secretive neighbours; a young girl tipping over a bulldozer while playing on dormant construction equipment; and gold bullion appearing outside a rundown rooming house. The characters, like the book’s kaleidoscopic cover, are splintered. O’Flynn often creates original plotlines to emphasise this.

 


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White Light by Mark O'Flynn

Spineless Wonders, $22.99 pb, 150 pp, 9780987254627

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


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