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1 online resource |
| Contents |
Cover; Author Biography; Title Page; Imprint Page; Dedication; Epigraph; Flight Home; Part One; Written on the Body; Odalisques; Skin and Needle; A Furious Beauty; No Quiet Corner; Tear Drops; Animal Spirits; Not Blue, Azure; Home, Into the Stars; Mementos; Part Two; Homecoming, Delayed; Revelation; People Trying to Enjoy Themselves; Little Blue Wren; Big Black Crow; Pulling Air; Small Brushstrokes; What War Can Do; Black on Aquamarine; Nowhere and Everywhere; Communions; Charlie; Made, Not Born; Freedom; Part Three; Blindfolded; The Big House; Mapping Country; Duet; Writing Class |
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More Than a BodyThe Survival of Poetry; War Poet; Invitation; Part Four; The Beauty in Sorrow; The Love of Brothers; The Tattoo Gods; Shrinking Behind Ink; Between His Thumb and Forefinger; Second Contact; Leaving, Coming; Azure or Dobalt?; Refugee; All Her Protective Spells; Two Women and a Boy; Cottage by Torchlight; Out of the Mist; Creatures in the Landscape; Birdsong; Not Alone; At Work in the Fields; Caves and Waterfalls; Needlesong; Victory; A Good Leg; The Sound Motorbikes Make; Greater Than They Think; Gallery of Limbs and Torsos; Tribute; What to Forgive; Plateau of Love |
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Too Much LightEpilogue; Acknowledgements |
| Summary |
When Brigadier James Phelan returns from Afghanistan with the body of a young soldier killed under his command, he is traumatised by the tragedy. An encounter with young Sydney tattoo artist Kira leaves him with a permanent tribute to the soldier, but it is a meeting that will change the course of his life. What he isn't expecting is a campaign of retribution from the soldiers who blame him for the ambush and threaten his career. With his marriage also on the brink, his life spirals out of control. Years later, Phelan is surprised when Kira re-enters his life seeking refuge from her own troubles and with a young son in tow. She finds a way to help him make peace with his past, but she is still on the run from her own. The War Artist is a timely and compelling novel about the legacy of war, the power of art and the possibility of redemption |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 1, 2019) |
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Soldiers -- Australia -- Fiction
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Post-traumatic stress disorder -- Fiction
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Afghan War, 2001-2021 -- Fiction
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Tattoo artists -- Fiction
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FICTION -- General.
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Post-traumatic stress disorder
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Soldiers
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Tattoo artists
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Australia
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780702261923 |
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0702261920 |
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9780702261930 |
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0702261939 |
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0702260347 |
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9780702260346 |
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