Author(s): Robert Drewe

SECONDHAND BOOKS | Australian Fiction

In the warm alkaline waters of the public bath a headstrong young engineer accidentally collides with a beautiful actress. From this innocent collision of flesh begins a passion that takes them from the Wiltshire Downs to the most elemental choices of life and death in the Australian desert. Their intense romance is but part of the daring story that unfolds. Mingling history, myth, and technology with a modern cinematic and poetic imagination, Robert Drewe presents a fable of European ambitions in an alien landscape, and a magnificently sustained metaphor of water as the life-and-death force.  

1996. Reprint. A very good copy with light rubbing to the boards and age tanning to the pages. The d/w is also very good with sunfading to the spine.