Dimensions
131 x 199 x 19mm
Into the hard-living world of travelling shearers in the Australian outback comes internationally acclaimed writer Roger McDonald, driving an old truck rattling with cooking gear. He has abandoned writing for a time and found work as a cook for a team of New Zealand shearers working through New South Wales, South Australia and Victoria. He is determined to find a sense of belonging: somehow to join his life with the landscape, the places and the people he meets along the way; somehow to fill the inexpressible yearning he feels.
'Shearer's Motel' is the story of that quest, of its triumphs and its failures - as story told with a heartfelt sense of the profundity of ordinary lives.
