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The Resource Game, Trevor Shearston

Game, Trevor Shearston

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A moving and epic novel about the last days of legendary bushranger Ben Hall. The thought was coming more often. That wherever he was, he was at the centre of a cage. He couldn't have said when the notion first entered his head. Sometime in the last months. It was more now than a notion, he could see the damn bars. They were grey steel, the height of a man on horseback. In a dream he'd ridden out of a clump of boulders and caught them just before they retreated, how he knew what they looked like. It is 1865. For three years Ben Hall and the men riding with him have been lords of every road in mid-western New South Wales. But with the Harbourers' Act made law, coach escorts armed now with the new Colt revolving rifle, and mailbags more often containing checks than banknotes, being game is no longer enough. The road of negotiated surrender is closed. Jack Gilbert has shot dead a police sergeant. Constable Nelson, father of eight, lies buried at Collector, killed by John Dunn. Neither time did Ben pull the fatal trigger, but he too will hang if ever the three are taken. Harry Hall is seven. Ben has not seen the boy since his wife Biddy left to live with another man, taking Harry with her. The need to see his son, to be in some way a father again, has grown urgent. But how much time is left before the need to give the game away and disappear becomes the greater urgency?
Language
eng
Work
Instance
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Game
Title
Game
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Trevor Shearston
Creator
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
A moving and epic novel about the last days of legendary bushranger Ben Hall. The thought was coming more often. That wherever he was, he was at the centre of a cage. He couldn't have said when the notion first entered his head. Sometime in the last months. It was more now than a notion, he could see the damn bars. They were grey steel, the height of a man on horseback. In a dream he'd ridden out of a clump of boulders and caught them just before they retreated, how he knew what they looked like. It is 1865. For three years Ben Hall and the men riding with him have been lords of every road in mid-western New South Wales. But with the Harbourers' Act made law, coach escorts armed now with the new Colt revolving rifle, and mailbags more often containing checks than banknotes, being game is no longer enough. The road of negotiated surrender is closed. Jack Gilbert has shot dead a police sergeant. Constable Nelson, father of eight, lies buried at Collector, killed by John Dunn. Neither time did Ben pull the fatal trigger, but he too will hang if ever the three are taken. Harry Hall is seven. Ben has not seen the boy since his wife Biddy left to live with another man, taking Harry with her. The need to see his son, to be in some way a father again, has grown urgent. But how much time is left before the need to give the game away and disappear becomes the greater urgency?
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Shearston, Trevor
Dewey number
823/.914
Index
no index present
Literary form
fiction
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  • Hall, Ben
  • Bushrangers
  • New South Wales
Target audience
adult
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Game, Trevor Shearston
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online resource
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  • cr
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multicolored
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text
Content type code
  • txt
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Control code
MWT11569546
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unknown
Extent
1 online resource.
Form of item
  • online
  • electronic
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Digital content provided by hoopla
Isbn
9781743432594
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia.
Media type code
  • c
Publisher number
MWT11569546
Specific material designation
remote
Stock number
11569546
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Mode of access: World Wide Web
Label
Game, Trevor Shearston
Link
Publication
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier.
Color
multicolored
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent.
Control code
MWT11569546
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource.
Form of item
  • online
  • electronic
Governing access note
Digital content provided by hoopla
Isbn
9781743432594
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia.
Media type code
  • c
Publisher number
MWT11569546
Specific material designation
remote
Stock number
11569546
System details
Mode of access: World Wide Web

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