jonathanbutlerauthor 's review for:

The Broken Shore by Peter Temple

4.0

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This book covers race, class, the environment, religion, politics, history, urban/rural divide, law enforcement, corruption, masculinity, sexuality, mental health, sex, youth, male friendship and contemporary Australia all in equal measure; whilst managing to be believable and interesting! The prose is extremely visual and detailed, perhaps too clipped at some stages - it would've been nice to relax into a sentence or a chapter longer than a page but it helped the story speed along. Couldn't put it down for the last 100 pages.