The bridge / Enza Gandolfo.
Publisher: Richmond, Victoria : Scribe Publications, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Description: 375 pages ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781925713015 (paperback)
- 1925713016 (paperback)
- Novel -- English -- Australia -- 21st century -- Texts
- Industrial accidents -- Melbourne -- Fiction
- Survival -- Fiction
- Life change events -- Fiction
- Immigrants -- Australia -- Fiction
- Grief -- Fiction
- Immigrants
- Industrial accidents
- Australian fiction
- Industrial accidents -- Australia -- Melbourne -- Fiction
- Australian fiction
- Guilt - Fiction
- Bridge failures - Australia - Fiction
- Nineteen seventies -- Fiction
- Construction workers -- Fiction
- Interpersonal relations -- Fiction
- Bridges -- Design and construction -- Fiction
- Accidents -- Fiction
- Survival -- Fiction
- Immigrants -- Australia -- Fiction
- Life change events -- Fiction
- Grief -- Fiction
- Industrial accidents -- Fiction
- West Gate Bridge (Melbourne, Vic.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Melbourne (Vic.) -- Fiction
- Melbourne (Vic.) -- Fiction
- Australia
- West Gate Bridge (Melbourne, Vic.) -- Fiction
- Australian
- A823.4 23
- 2019 Stella Prize Longlist.
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode |
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Jessie Street National Women's Library | 823.4 GAN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available for reference in the library and ILL | 2019 Stella Prize shortlist | 68075 |
1970 -- 2009 -- 2010.
Did the dead exist? Were they watching? Were they ghosts? Not the kind he'd imagined as a child, draped with white sheets, with the ability to walk through walls, but the kind that lodged themselves in your heart, in your memories, the kind that came to you in dreams, that you could see when you closed your eyes and sometimes even when your eyes were opened. In 1970s Melbourne, 22-year-old Italian migrant Antonello is newly married and working as a rigger on the West Gate Bridge, a gleaming monument to a modern city. When the bridge collapses one October morning, killing 35 of his workmates, his world crashes down on him. In 2009, Jo and her best friend, Ashleigh, are on the verge of finishing high school and flush with the possibilities for their future. But one terrible mistake sets Jo’s life on a radically different course. Drawing on true events of Australia's worst industrial accident -- a tragedy that still scars the city -- The Bridge is a profoundly moving novel that examines class, guilt, and moral culpability. Yet it shows that even the most harrowing of situations can give way to forgiveness and redemption. Ultimately, it is a testament to survival and the resilience of the human spirit.
2019 Stella Prize Longlist.
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