{"product_id":"oceana-fine","title":"Oceana Fine","description":"\u003cp\u003eFin Torrent is a history student who has crossed the country to work in the West Australian wheatbelt for the holidays. He’s looking for something ‘in nature’. Nothing could have prepared him for what he finds in this hard, unforgiving landscape.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet in the 1980s, \u003cem\u003eOceana Fine\u003c\/em\u003e is a multi-award-winning genre-defying novel in which, as the \u003cem\u003eSydney Morning Herald\u003c\/em\u003e put it, ‘violence rubs shoulders with a strange lyricism’.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Oceana Fine is the name of a new strain of wheat – but there is nothing of uniformity in the novel of that name. It sticks up from the plain of naturalism more jagged and more distinctive than a silo. From realism almost to surrealism, this is a novel always original, exciting, different. Go for it! And three cheers for Tom Flood, a new author with ideas and daring!’ — Geoffrey Dutton\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWriting on Tony Hughes-d’Aeth’s \u003cem\u003eLike Nothing on this Earth: A Literary History of the Wheatbelt \u003c\/em\u003efor \u003cem\u003eAustralian Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e, Delys Birth calls \u003cem\u003eOceana Fine\u003c\/em\u003e ’Tom Flood’s single, early, neglected, prize-winning novel’. Its inclusion in the \u003cem\u003eUntapped\u003c\/em\u003e Collection means it will be neglected no longer. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOceana Fine\u003c\/em\u003e won The \u003cem\u003eAustralian\u003c\/em\u003e\/Vogel National Literary Award in 1988. It was published the following year and in 1990, won both the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award (Fiction) and the Miles Franklin Literary Award. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Kobo eBook","offer_id":46537351594194,"sku":"f2d9eac3-719d-3c9e-84a6-31e5857e8865","price":11.6,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/image_4c99acab-81c5-4926-9b2b-c6953217885e.jpg?v=1762876421","url":"https:\/\/www.indigo.ca\/products\/oceana-fine","provider":"Indigo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}