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Author:

Goldbloom, Goldie.

Title:

The paperbark shoe / Goldie Goldbloom.

Edition:

1st Picador ed.

Publisher:

Picador,

Copyright Date:

2011

Description:

ix, 373 p. ; 21 cm.

Subject:

Prisoners of war--Fiction.
Italians--Australia--Fiction.
Farms--Australia--Fiction.
Farmers' spouses--Fiction.
Albinos and albinism--Fiction.
Pianists--Fiction.
Women pianists--Fiction.
Farm life--Australia--Fiction.
Australia--Fiction.

Notes:

Previously published as Toads' museum of freaks and wonders by New Issues (Kalamazoo, Mich.) in 2010. "A novel"--Cover.

Summary:

In the wake of a thwarted career as a concert pianist and the accompanying emotional fallout, Gin accepts a marriage proposal from the peculiar Mr. Toad. But nothing from the albino Gin Toad's upbringing in the bourgeois drawing rooms of Perth has prepared her for a hardscrabble existence on a subsistence farm in the Australian outback.

ISBN:

0312674503 (pbk.)
9780312674502 (pbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)654318573

LCCN:

2010045374

Locations:

MMPE553 -- Algona Public Library (Algona)

KSPG296 -- Burlington Public Library (Burlington)

NYPE343 -- Charles City Public Library (Charles City)

MXPG943 -- Fort Dodge Public Library (Fort Dodge)

GZPE631 -- Pella Public Library (Pella)