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Before I Wake (Scott novel)

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Language
  
English

Publication date
  
1996

Pages
  
433

Originally published
  
1996

Page count
  
433

ISBN
  
0140256954

Publisher
  
Penguin, Australia

Media type
  
Print (Paperback)

Preceded by
  
What I Have Written

Author
  
John Alan Scott

Genre
  
Novel

Country
  
Australia

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Before I Wake (1996) is a novel by Australian author John Scott. It was shortlisted for the 1997 Miles Franklin Award.

Contents

Plot summary

Jonathan Ford, haunted by his past, wanders aimlessly through Australia and Europe until he meets two sisters.

Awards and nominations

  • 1997 shortlisted NBC Banjo Awards — NBC Banjo Award for Fiction
  • 1997 shortlisted Miles Franklin Literary Award
  • 1997 shortlisted Victorian Premier's Literary Awards — The Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction

    • Reviews

  • Neil James in Westerly, Autumn 1997, stated "this ambitious book embraces the full narrative scope of fiction", before concluding that "John Scott has made a transition from poet to novelist similar to that made by David Malouf, Rodney Hall and Roger McDonald. He has taken with him a command of language not widely matched in Australian fiction."

    • References

    Before I Wake (Scott novel) Wikipedia
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