The Shoe-Horn Sonata
$22.23
- Paperback
80 pages
- Release Date
7 October 1996
Summary
In 1945 Sheila and Bridie were freed from a Japanese POW camp deep in the jungles of Sumatra where thousands of women and children had lived and died virtually forgotten by their own governments. Now, after being separated for half a century, the filming of a television documentary forces them to relive the past, contact the present and question the future. Woven into their fifty years of separation are a shoe-horn and the threads of loyalty and love which form their ‘uncommon bond’.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780868194813 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0868194816 |
| Author: | John Misto |
| Publisher: | Currency Press Pty Ltd |
| Imprint: | Currency Press Pty Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 80 |
| Release Date: | 7 October 1996 |
| Weight: | 90g |
| Dimensions: | 5mm x 137mm x 210mm |
| Series: | Plays |
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Critics Review
‘Misto interweaves his potent factual research with a compelling fictional drama that rises almost to the level of a love story.’
THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALDJohn Misto
JOHN MISTO is an Arts/Law graduate from the University of New South Wales. He has been a writer since 1981, after working as a solicitor. His play Harp on the Willow won the Rodney Seaborn Playwright’s Award for Best New Australian Play. The Shoe-Horn Sonata won the NSW Premier’s Literary Award for Best Play and the Australia Remembers National Play Competition. For his work in television he has won three AFI Awards and three Australian Writers’ Guild Awards. He also has written a crime fiction novel, The Devil’s Companions.
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