 First edition | |
| Author | Andrew O'Connor |
|---|---|
| Country | Australia |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Novel |
| Publisher | Allen and Unwin, Australia |
Publication date | 2006 |
| Media type | Print Paperback |
| Pages | 347 pp |
| ISBN | 1-74114-871-5 |
| OCLC | 74946085 |
| A823.4 22 | |
| LC Class | PR9619.4.O286 T88 2006 |
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I guess for me Tuvalu's always done the trick. I've never been anywhere near it. I've never even studied it. For all I know it might well have sunk. But that one word's taken on a meaning all of its own. [...] Haven't you ever once looked into the future and pictured a different life for yourself, made it a destination in some abstract way? A place in which you are content and from which you never look forward, except maybe to hope for more of the same? [1]
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