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I won my copy of this book in a competition for National Year of Reading in the local Star Newspaper:)
The blurb says ‘...Michael Sala’s fascinating life in fiction’. It came across to me as an autobiography of Michael’s life. It is disjointed at times, but extremely moving, harrowing yet secretive.
The story of Michaelis, his brother Constantinos, their mother, and step-father Dirk, and their lives during the 1980’s when they lived in and around Newcastle, NSW, involves the continual beatings by ...more
The blurb says ‘...Michael Sala’s fascinating life in fiction’. It came across to me as an autobiography of Michael’s life. It is disjointed at times, but extremely moving, harrowing yet secretive.
The story of Michaelis, his brother Constantinos, their mother, and step-father Dirk, and their lives during the 1980’s when they lived in and around Newcastle, NSW, involves the continual beatings by ...more
Jan 18, 2016
Magdalena
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The opening of Michael Sala’s The Last Thread is both intimate and intense. The reader is drawn directly into young Michaelis’s experience: “Living room swims in light and noise. The shh from the speakers sounds like rain, so loud you can’t hear the drops.” This sensual immediacy continues through the book, even as the boy, who both is and isn’t the author, grows, and even through the distancing effect of third person. The Last Thread is a fictionalised memoir. Of course all memoir has a degree
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Jul 18, 2016
Jules
marked it as to-read
