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Language
  
English

Published in English
  
26 March 2014

Pages
  
288

Author
  
Craig Sherborne

Genre
  
Novel

Country
  
Australia

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Publication date
  
2014

Media type
  
Print (Paperback)

Originally published
  
2014

Page count
  
288

ISBN
  
9781922147325

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Publisher
  
Text Publishing, Australia

Similar
  
Craig Sherborne books, Novels

Tree Palace (2014) is a novel by Australian author Craig Sherborne. It was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award in 2015.

Contents

Plot summary

Set in rural western Victoria, this novel deals with a group of itinerants who have congregated around Shane Whittaker. The group makes money by scamming the welfare system, and stripping abandoned buildings (houses, schools, churches and libraries) of their fittings and selling them on the second-hand market.

Reviews

  • Peter Pierce in the Sydney Morning Herald noted the novel "is a gently handled comedy that treats enforced and willing marginalisation in an Australia that few of its citizens glimpse."
  • Catherine Ford in The Monthly stated that "...if Sherborne ever draws close to a Tim Winton–style picaresque, he keeps well clear of that writer's hymnals of sentiment."

    • Awards and nominations

  • 2015 shortlisted Miles Franklin Literary Award

    • References

    Tree Palace Wikipedia
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