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<a href="http://www.readings.com.au:80/product/9780732278366/steven-carroll-the-time-we-have-taken" title="The Time We Have Taken"><img alt="" class="cover" src="http://www.readings.com.au:80/covers/thumb/0732278368.jpg?1192023501" /></a><p><strong>Winner of the 2008 Miles Franklin Literary Award.</strong></p> <p><em>That exotic tribe was us. And the time we have taken, our moment.'</em></p> <p>One summer morning in 1970, Peter van Rijn, proprietor of the television and wireless shop, pronounces his Melbourne suburb one hundred years old.</p> <p>That same morning, Rita is awakened by a dream of her husband's snores, yet it is years since Vic moved north. Their son, Michael, has left for the city, and is entering the awkward terrain of first love.</p> <p>As the suburb prepares to celebrate progress, Michael's friend Mulligan is commissioned to paint a mural of the area's history. But what vision of the past will his painting reveal?</p> <p>Meanwhile, Rita's sometime friend Mrs Webster confronts the mystery of her husband's death. And Michael discovers that innocence can only be sustained for so long.</p> <p><em>The Time We Have Taken</em> is both a meditation on the rhythms of suburban life and a luminous exploration of public and private reckoning during a time of radical change.</p> 9780732278373 Steven Carroll customerservice@readings.com.au

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<a href="http://www.readings.com.au:80/product/9780732278373/steven-carroll-the-time-we-have-taken" title="The Time We Have Taken"><img alt="" class="cover" src="http://www.readings.com.au:80/covers/thumb/0732278376.jpg?1226461310" /></a><p><strong>Winner of the 2008 Miles Franklin Literary Award.</strong></p> <p>That exotic tribe was us. And the time we have taken‚ our moment.</p> <p>One summer morning in 1970‚ Peter van Rijn‚ proprietor of the television and wireless shop‚ pronounces his Melbourne suburb one hundred years old.</p> <p>That same morning‚ Rita is awakened by a dream of her husband′s snores‚ yet it is years since Vic moved north. Their son‚ Michael‚ has left for the city‚ and is entering the awkward terrain of first love.</p> <p>As the suburb prepares to celebrate progress‚ Michael′s friend Mulligan is commissioned to paint a mural of the area′s history. But what vision of the past will his painting reveal?</p> <p>Meanwhile‚ Rita′s sometime friend Mrs Webster confronts the mystery of her husband′s death. And Michael discovers that innocence can only be sustained for so long.</p> <p>The Time We Have Taken is both a meditation on the rhythms of suburban life and a luminous exploration of public and private reckoning during a time of radical change.</p>