The Low Road

The Low Road

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author = Chris Womersley
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country = Australia
language = English
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genre = Novel
publisher = Scribe, Melbourne
release_date = 2007
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media_type = Print Paperback
pages = 280 pp
isbn = ISBN 9781921215476 (first edition, paperback)
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"The Low Road" is a 2007 Ned Kelly Award winning novel by the Australian author Chris Womersley.

Awards

*Victorian Premier's Literary Award, Prize for an Unpublished Manuscript by an Emerging Victorian Writer, 2006: shortlisted
*Ned Kelly Awards for Crime Writing, Best First Novel, 2008: winner

Notes

*Dedication: "For my mother, my brother and my sister, who know something of the roads I have travelled."
*Epigraph: "A man's character is his fate." - Heraclitus, "On the Universe".
*Epigraph: ::"And what the dead had no speech for, when living ::They can tell you, being dead: the communication ::Of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living." - T.S.Eliot, "Little Gidding".

Reviews

*"The Age" [http://www.theage.com.au/news/book-reviews/the-low-road/2007/10/16/1192300755985.html]
*"The Australian" [http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22459448-25132,00.html]
*"Australian Crime Fiction Database" [http://www.crimedownunder.com/detail/cwlowroa.html]
*"First Tuesday Book Club" [http://www.abc.net.au/tv/firsttuesday/s2053719.htm]
*"Readings" [http://www.readings.com.au/product/9781921215476/the-low-road]


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