In popular music, country music, also called country and western music or country-western, is an amalgam of popular musical forms developed in the Southern United States, with roots in traditional... More > folk music, Celtic Music, Blues, Gospel music, and Old-time music that began to develop rapidly in the 1920s. The term country music began to be widely applied to the music in the 1940s and was fully embraced in the 1970s while country and western declined in use.< Less
This is a story about heroes, but not heroics. It is a story of men living their lives -- quietly and peacefully. But life has moments when it is neither, when things happen, life changes and men are... More > forced to face themselves.
Neil Piggott was a pilot flying Lancasters in World War II. Now he is an old man who likes to potter in his garden. Hidden in the house is the medal he won in the War, the Victoria Cross.
His grandson Alex has just met Alyson. She's a friend of his brother Kieran. Alyson has taken Alex into her bed. And told him secrets abouts his brother Kieran.
Neil already knows these secrets. He's faced death before. He can help Kieran face his.
"a pleasure to read and reread ... an unusual, yet persuasive, perspective of Australian society." BRUCE SIMS
"I was very moved by this novel." MARGARET BRADSTOCK< Less
This is a story about heroes, but not heroics. It is a story of men living their lives -- quietly and peacefully. But life has moments when it is neither, when things happen, life changes and men are... More > forced to face themselves.
Neil Piggott was a pilot flying Lancasters in World War II. Now he is an old man who likes to potter in his garden. Hidden in the house is the medal he won in the War, the Victoria Cross.
His grandson Alex has just met Alyson. She's a friend of his brother Kieran. Alyson has taken Alex into her bed. And told him secrets abouts his brother Kieran.
Neil already knows these secrets. He's faced death before. He can help Kieran face his.
"a pleasure to read and reread ... an unusual, yet persuasive, perspective of Australian society." BRUCE SIMS
"I was very moved by this novel." MARGARET BRADSTOCK< Less
Three very different young men come of age in Tucson, Arizona, during the late 90's, discovering themselves in the interwoven worlds of high school, pop culture, night clubs, college, the occult and... More > a hidden ocean that may or may not exist in the desert. Mostly comedic, somewhat tragic, this unconventional memoir chronicles both the lives of the characters and the development of the writer over 15 years of writing stories.< Less
