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The Long Dry
The Long Dry | Cynan Jones
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The animal facts of human life need, love, children, exhaustion, incapacity, and death come alive in one farmer's long hot day."
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swynn
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It's a short lyrical anti-pastoral novella, set on a farm during drought, when one cow has wandered off, another will begin calving at any time, the aging dog must be put down, and the farmer wonders how long he'll be able to keep doing this, and worries he'll never bridge the growing distance between himself and his wife. The melancholy gets a bit thick sometimes, but the prose is brilliant.

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mreads
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Day in the life of a man looking for his lost cow, except it's totally crazy pants and packed into 120 pages.

Theaelizabet Now, THAT'S an intriguing review! 5y
batsy What @Theaelizabet said! 5y
andrew61 That looks good. I really liked The dig and his short story won the bbc short story award 2 years ago. 5y
mreads @andrew61 The Cove was excellent also. I just put the rest of his work on my TBR 5y
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charl08
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dangerous things that plot...

DuckOfDoom @jenniferw88 I have to read that book now!! 7y
charl08 @jenniferw88 they go on for about two pages... 7y
charl08 @duckofdoom these ducks face doom... 7y
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charl08
The Long Dry | Cynan Jones
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Not sure if it was the book or the wine I was most looking forward to, but fortunately I don't have to choose between them...

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Lettters
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This book is so good. I read it everywhere.

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