![]() ![]() Of course, what makes this story so unique and so persistently threatening to its characters is the isolation of the setting, the nearest neighbors being at least three hours away. The small dot on a large map that encompasses the best and the worst of humankind, the story of the Bright family of Queensland, Australia could be a tragedy right out of Shakespeare or an epic saga of a generational farming family trying to hold on against the elements and their own personal shortcomings. Jane Harper has harnessed the power and vastness of the Australian outback into a story of a family struggling against the constant hardships of man versus nature and man vs. ![]() But, if anyone had any lingering thoughts of will it last, The Lost Man should solidly put those thoughts to rest. Of course, having been overwhelmingly impressed with Harper's first two novels, The Dry and Force of Nature, I never really had any doubts that this author was the real deal, one of the most remarkable voices to come along in the past few years. The Lost Man is book #3 for Jane Harper, and I always look to the third book to determine what sort of staying power an author has. ![]()
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