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Absolutely Revolting
Fiction

Death of a Whaler by Nerida Newton

by Corrie Hosking •
November 2006, no. 286

Death of a Whaler by Nerida Newton

Allen & Unwin, $22.95 pb, 312 pp, 1741147913

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Death of a Whaler considers the grand themes of death, grief, the quest for meaning and the potential for reawakening. Just days before the Byron Bay whalers are made redundant in 1962, lopsided Flinch is involved in an accident and literally frozen. It is not only when he meets Karma, himself troubled by the past, that Flinch reluctantly begins the trial of healing.

 


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Death of a Whaler

Death of a Whaler by Nerida Newton

Allen & Unwin, $22.95 pb, 312 pp, 1741147913

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

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