The teenage anti-hero of Tim Winton’s powerful new novel wants to get himself lost because he’s on the run: on the run from the cops who think (wrongly) he has killed his violent father; on the run from the ghost of his dead mother; most of all on the run from himself.
26 July 2018, The Tablet
Teenage anti-hero becomes an instrument of God
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