Tamarisk RowClement Killeaton transforms his fathers gambling, his mothers piety, his fellow pupils cruelty and the mysterious but forbidden attractions of sex into an imagined world centred on horse racing and played out in the dusty backyard of his home, across the landscapes of the district, and the continent of Australia. An unsparing evocation of a Catholic childhood in a country town in the late 1940s, Tamarisk Rows lyrical prose is charged with the

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