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The Mary Smokes Boys

Patrick Holland

Paperback | Pages: 240 pages

Rating: 3.39 | 105 Users | 24 Reviews

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Title	:	The Mary Smokes Boys
Author	:	Patrick Holland
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 240 pages
Published	:	August 1st 2010 by Transit Lounge Publishing
Categories	:	Fiction. Novels. Literature. 21st Century. Literary Fiction

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Grey's mother dies giving birth to his sister Irene and the tragedy haunts his life in the small town of Mary Smokes. Grey prays that his mother will be returned to him in some form, so he might protect her from the world as his father did not. This prayer, Grey believes is answered in his sister Irene. He becomes obsessed with protecting her purity and innocence.

Also with his mother gone and his father turned to drink, Grey begins running with the wild boys, horse-handlers and fox hunters and part-time timber workers - members of a small, vanishing tribe who find themselves caught between an old relationship with place and a new one that is exemplified by the highway that threatens their town. A rash gamble by Grey and Irene's broken father means he and the Mary Smokes boys must steal horses to ensure Irene's safety.

The consequences seem set to fall on Greys' closest friend, Ook' Eccleston. As Grey's, Eccleston's and Irene's lives are put at stake his allegiances falter and the world of Mary Smokes slips into a heightened state of darkness and threat.With the passion of Emily Bronte in Wuthering Heights and the distilled beauty of Ondaatje Patrick Holland captures the fragility and grace of small town life and how one fateful moment can forever alter the course of our lives.

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Recently I've been drawn to stories with roots in nature or characters who are connected to nature in some way. I like how moods and events are linked to the setting and the weather; it feels very "Australian Bush". Everything about Mary Smokes Boys is so familiar to me (particularly as I live half an hour down the road from where it is set); I can clearly see the countryside and the characters seem like a patchwork of fellows I could meet at my local pub. It didn't really drag me in. I'm not

My second book by patrick Holland in as many months. This is so so strange, dark and beautiful. Even a better book than The Darkest Little Room.

Awesomely atmospheric. Some lovely moments. Took me entirely inside a place I haven't otherwise been. Should be 3.5, but that's not an option...

I wish I could give seven stars. I have never read anything like it. More like a painting or a piece of music than a novel. Or perhaps like a dark and beautiful dream. The Darkest Little Room is an extraordinary book, and just as violent and beautiful, but this is quieter, darker, stranger. My favorite book of all time.

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Patrick Holland writes sparely and beautifully about the lives of a family and their neighbors in a small, nearly extinct town in Australia. You can really sense the landscape and characters. However, be prepared for a "downer". If you like happy endings, this is not the book for you. It starts off with tragically, continues on with hopelessness, poverty and desperation, and finishes on despair. Beautifully expressed, but sad.

This a haunting story of lost boys on the fringe of today's modern world, living outside the norm, but peering back through the window pane to find a way in. Patrick Holland's writing is spare and quite beautiful. We slowly get to know Grey North, his sister Irene, his father and the wild boys who are as much his family as those who share his blood. This is life on the edge, life that clings to existence by the finger tips, precariously surviving against the odds.Grey will stay with me for some