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The bridge [BOOK CLUB SETS] / Enza Gandolfo.
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Gandolfo, Enza, 1957-
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The bridge [BOOK CLUB SETS] / Enza Gandolfo.
Published
Melbourne, Victoria : Scribe Publications, 2018.
©2018.
Description
375 pages ;
24 cm.
Series
BOOK CLUB SETS
Notes
Book set contains 10 books, one laminated 4-page discussion notes and one laminated T & C issuing tag.
Summary
Did the dead exist? Were they watching? Were they ghosts? Not the kind he’d imagined as a child, draped with white sheets, with the ability to walk through walls, but the kind that lodged themselves in your heart, in your memories, the kind that came to you in dreams, that you could see when you closed your eyes and sometimes even when your eyes were opened. In 1970s Melbourne, 22-year-old Italian migrant Antonello is newly married and working as a rigger on the West Gate Bridge, a gleaming monument to a modern city. When the bridge collapses one October morning, killing 35 of his workmates, his world crashes down on him. In 2009, Jo and her best friend, Ashleigh, are on the verge of finishing high school and flush with the possibilities for their future. But one terrible mistake sets Jo’s life on a radically different course. Drawing on true events of Australia’s worst industrial accident — a tragedy that still scars the city — The Bridge is a profoundly moving novel that examines class, guilt, and moral culpability. Yet it shows that even the most harrowing of situations can give way to forgiveness and redemption. Ultimately, it is a testament to survival and the resilience of the human spirit.
Awards
Shortlist for Stella Prize in 2019.
Subjects
Immigrants -- Australia -- Fiction
Industrial accidents -- Melbourne -- Fiction
Survival -- Fiction
Grief -- Fiction
Life change events -- Fiction
Melbourne (Vic.) -- Fiction
Genre
Australian fiction.
General fiction.
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