Scott Eathorne Quikmark Media W: www.quikmarkmedia.com.au
Forthcoming novel follows a young boy orphaned after a bushfire, examines divide between nature and culture .
Orphaned after a bushfire, eleven-year-old Shaun must now go to live with his aunt in the city. Here his world of benign nature meets the urban frontline head on. What can city life teach him, what can he offer the many troubled people he meets there?
The new novel from acclaimed author Robert Hollingworth, The Colour of the Night (Hybrid Publishing, October, $24.95), centres on the increasing divide between nature and culture. During this era of great technological advancement, one question looms large: Do we lose anything if we leave the green world behind? This is a story of polarities: the country and the city; nature and culture; the material and the digital; the spirit and the flesh; lost faith and renewed hope. The Colour of the Night is a tale of compelling human insight.
Robert Hollingworth is a successful and talented visual artist as well as a respected writer. Hollingworth’s literary works include his memoir, Nature Boy, and They Called Me the Wildman: The Prison Diary of Henricke Nelsen, which was shortlisted for the SA Premier’s Literary Awards Fiction prize in 2010 and, since 2009, has been included on both the Victorian and NSW Premier’s Reading Challenge List. Robert Hollingworth’s last work of fiction was Smythe’s Theory of Everything.
