Patrick Holland
Auteur van The Mary Smokes Boys
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Patrick Holland was born on August 7, 1977 in Rockhampton, Australia. He is the author of a short story collection entitled The Source of the Sound, which won Salt Publishing's 2010 Scott Prize. His other works include The Mary Smokes Boys, Riding the Trains in Japan, The Darkest Little Room, toon meer Navigatio, and One. He is also a founding member of the Asia Pacific Writers and Translators Association. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
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It is a story of a journalist searching for a mystery woman that he has fallen in love with or has become enchanted with, while navigating the dangerous world of decadent Vietnam and those that exist within the underworld of drugs and prostitution.
In the book, most of the characters may or may not be what they profess to be and while the main character navigates this world, in one way, he appears to be a one-dimensional character that seems to never learn when it comes to the dangers of walking within an underground society of those that offer depravities that one seeks.
Sort of like the older depiction of the noir detective that keeps getting hit on the head each time he walks into a room or by a dark alley and never seems to change his behavior.
In the end, it got to the point where I just wanted to finish the book to see how it ended and move on to the next book on my reading list.… (meer)