Title The last pulse / Anson Cameron

Published North Sydney, N.S.W. : Vintage Books, [2014] North Sydney NSW : Random House Australia, 2014 ©2014 ©2014

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Description 273 pages ; 24 cm regular print Summary A blackly funny novel about an unlikely hero, and his misadventures on the flood he has created. In the drought-stricken Riverland town of Bartel in South Australia, after the suicide of his wife, Merv Rossiter steals a boat. He trucks north with his eight-year-old-daughter Em into Queensland. There he blows up the dam at Waroo Station, releasing a flood through outback New South Wales into South Australia. As the authorities search for them, Merv and Em ride the flood south in their stolen boat, rescuing a Queensland Minister from the water, and then a young blackfella who fancies he sang the river to life all by himself. Meanwhile, in Canberra, the political flotsam carried by Merv's renegade ocean brings the Federal Government to its knees. The Last Pulse is the story of the last flood that will ever flow down the inland artery that was the Darling River. The stream is broken now and the agriculture and lives of South Australians have been appropriated with the water by a people a thousand kilometres to the north. Throughout their misadventures on his flood, Merv promises his daughter they will be heroes in South Australia, and that they are sailing towards victory parades and happiness. The other crewmembers, however, know he is heading towards a violent reckoning with Australia itself. Blackly humorous, poignant, timely, The Last Pulse is Anson Cameron's finest work to date Analysis Australian Australian fiction Notes "A Vintage book published by Random House Australia Pty Ltd"--Title page verso Audience General Tertiary/Undergraduate Subject Australian fiction -- 21st century. Australian fiction. Dams -- Fiction. Dams -- Environmental aspects -- Fiction. Droughts -- Fiction. Floods -- Fiction. Motherless families -- Fiction. Sabotage -- Fiction. Suicide -- Fiction. Water-supply -- Government policy -- Australia -- Fiction. Fathers and daughters -- Fiction. Droughts -- Fiction. Fathers and daughters -- Fiction. Humorous stories. SUBJECT Australia -- Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100473 Genre/Form Humorous fiction. Novels. LC no. 2014472741 ISBN 9780857984982

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