Autumn book reviews
Jun 11, 2021
4 minutes
by Mark Laurie of South Seas Books, Port Elliot.
Chasing the McCubbin
by Sandi Scaunich
Published by Transit Lounge Publishing ISBN 9781925760590
$29.99
A microcosmic story, set in Melbourne’s outer suburbia during the early 1990s recession memorably described as the one ‘we had to have.’ Joseph, a teenage refugee from domestic violence and an utterly broken home, is crushed by his circumstances and largely disengaged from a world which has offered him so little. By a chance meeting, he is introduced to Ron and his world of antique collectors, a highly competitive and eclectic group making their living by
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