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Shearers' Motel by McDonald, Roger is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Shearers' Motel about?
'Roger McDonald uses language with the precision of a diamond cutter.' US Publishers Weekly Another shed coming up on the horizon...a low, wide roof of galvanised iron the only landmark in a million square miles of flatness and glare... The sun blazed overhead like a nuclear pile. His hat smelt like a dirty sock. His body was sticky, itchy, tired. The tyres od his odl yellow truck, sunk into the sand, gave out a hot, desolate, perished rubber odour, heatwaves ballooning from the bodywork. The impression he had, glancing back towards the vehicel, was of disintegrating material only just holding together. A split in his hat admitted a hot bar of sunlight onto his scalp. His eyeballs felt like pinpoint charred coals and he wanted to slide down into what shade there was... Yesterday morning he had left a tin-roofed farmhouse far to the south of here - Sharon, his wife, and his three daughters hardly stirring in their sleep as they said goodbye. Then while he was out at the truck...
Who reads Shearers' Motel?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- McDonald, Roger
- Publisher
- Penguin Random House Australia
- Published
- 1992
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781740510516
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Travel, History, Fiction
- Rating
- 3.79 / 5 (13 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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