Patrick McGowan

Ride a White Mare (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Marco Gentolini wants to discover what he can about jade in Australia. It started after he visited the world's biggest carving of a single piece of imported gem-quality green jade housed at the Buddhist Temple near Bendigo, where he was prompted to ask: is there any gem-quality jade in Australia? The experts say no. And no white jade either. But whisperings tell him otherwise. Quitting uni, dropping his girlfriend and leaving his lifelong mates behind, he takes to the road to find answers. He travels in the dark, but his desire is so strong. He finds helpers and companions who take him to unknown corners of the land. Marco compels us to ask whether we can believe all we've been told in the past. He writes his story in a unique and polished way worthy of the stone he has grown to love: 'There's jade and then there's jade'.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Distributed via Smashwords
• Seitenzahl: 275
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780992581237
• Artikelnr.: 45518449

Autorenporträt

I've been writing pretty much full time for ten years- after I completed a Master of Creative Arts (Prose) at the University of Wollongong. Previously I worked as metallurgist, health food retailer, government bureaucrat, diplomat and entrepreneur.

While my work overseas for the Australian government took me on postings to many places including Europe, Asia and Africa, I like to write about the contemporary Australian experience. I began writing fiction in the nineties, had some short stories published, then put my writing on hold to give full attention to my career.

I'm a taiji enthusiast, avid jade collector, and a keen follower of William Gass and his theory of sentences, that each sentence has a soul, and that all good literature comes from the well-constructed sentence.

I live in near the Royal National Park, south of Sydney.