By Murray Bail
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<b>Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for top Book
</b><b> A New York occasions booklet Review awesome publication of the Year
On a estate in New South Wales, a widower named Holland lives along with his daughter, Ellen. through the years as she grows right into a appealing girl, Holland vegetation countless numbers of other eucalyptus timber on his land, filling the panorama, creating a digital open air museum of timber. while Ellen is 19, Holland declares that she may well basically marry the guy who can competently identify the species of every and each gum tree on his estate. a wierd contest starts, and Ellen is left unmoved via her suitors till she possibilities on an odd younger guy resting below the Coolibah tree whose tales will amaze and dazzle her. a contemporary fairy story, and an unforgettable love tale, that bristles with spiky truths and unforeseen knowledge approximately paintings, female attractiveness, panorama, and language. Eucalyptus affirms the seductive strength of storytelling itself.
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Bingham, how about my money? " Fainy jumped down and went to the horse's head. An /ace. expression of "Oh, gloom passed over Doc Bingham'a lucre, lucre . . "Examine well His milkwhite hand the y is -palm hardly clean But here and there an ugly smutch appears, Fohy 'twas a bribe that left it. . "I had great plans for a cooperative enterprise that you are spoiling by your youthful haste and greed but if you must I'll hand over to you this very night . 49 .
His arms were stiff from carrying the heavy cartons. "I suppose this is some more of Mannie's tomfoolishness. " just hired me to work for the he's got to clear out of here; "But Dr. " Fainy sat down glumly in the swivelchair by the window, the only chair in the office not piled high with small papercovered books. Outside the window he could see a few dusty roofs and fire escapes. Through grimy windows he could see other offices, other rolltop desks. On the desk him were paperwrapped packages of books.
The scrawny woman let her arms drop to her side and shook her head. " Fainy was sore. He didn't "Come answer. here, honied tpnes, "allow the immortal bard: Lowliness is Fenian," me to said Doc Bingham in remind you of the words of your ambition's ladder Whereto the climber upward turns his face But when he once attains the topmost round He then unto the ladder turns his back "You must be hungry. " piece of pie," said the old woman. " said Fainy, coming forward. "Oh, if they're only ten cents I think I'd like one," woman quickly.
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