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Patrick Holland

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born
Australia
gender
male

member since
January 2010


About this author

Patrick Holland grew up in outback Queensland, Australia. He worked as a stockman until taking up literary studies at Griffith University. He has studied Chinese and Vietnamese at universities in Beijing, Qingdao and Saigon.

His work attempts a strict minimalism inspired by Arvo Pärt and takes up geographical and theological themes, focussing on life’s simplest elements: light and dark; noise, sound and silence; wind and water.


Average rating: 3.47 · 96 ratings · 36 reviews · 7 distinct works · Similar authors
The Mary Smokes Boys
3.41 of 5 stars 3.41 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions
The Darkest Little Room
3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2012
Riding the Trains in Japan
3.18 of 5 stars 3.18 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2011
The Long Road of the Junkma...
3.0 of 5 stars 3.00 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2006 — 2 editions
Tourists with Typewriters: ...
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4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1999 — 2 editions
The Source Of Sound. By Pat...
3.5 of 5 stars 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions
Red Leaves / 紅葉
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5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2010
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Her best book. The structure and power of a Greek myth rendered in laconic, fluid prose.
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As Rivers Flow by John L. Saul
An absolutely extraordinary and criminally underrated work of short fiction ... like James Joyce, but with better control of the instrument than he ever displayed, certainly late in his life, and without the more childish/cerebral game elements, like...more
Triptych by Krissy Kneen
Work of a first rate literary artist.
Closer to Stone by Simon Cleary
If the name below the title read 'Ondatje' this would have turned over half a million copies by now. Wonderful book and much underrated.
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“She was so beautiful tonight he knew he would die of it. He hated that anyone else should see it. He wished it were something he alone could see. And he knew he was alone, that nobody saw it but him. And he knew that everyone could see it. And still no one could but him.”
Patrick Holland

“I own you. All things belong to the people who love them most.”
Patrick Holland, The Mary Smokes Boys

“We will all lose everything, and perhaps then, by the very shape of our pain, we will earn it back.”
Patrick Holland, The Source Of Sound. By Patrick Holland

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