TRUTH
Temple, Peter (Text publishing: Australia, 2009, ISBN 9781921520716)
Peter Temple’s Truth reads like an Australian television miniseries. You can even see where they would show the tits.
The novel’s beauty comes from the vividness of its writing. We leave it with afterimages of “sharp-toothed skulls” and “beer cartons blown flat against the fences” still glowing behind our mind’s I. We can still hear the footsteps on the “gap-planked verandah” and the “rip and flap of a loose truck tarp in the nearest yard”. Continue reading