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Overland (Paperback)
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Overland (Paperback)
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List price R474
Loot Price R391
Discovery Miles 3 910
You Save R83 (18%)
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Welcome to Overland! Where the California sun shines down on
synthetic grass and plastic oranges bedeck the trees all year
round. Steam billows gently from the chimney tops and the blue
tarpaulin lake is open for fishing... Hollywood set-designer George
Godfrey has been called on to do his patriotic duty and he doesn't
believe in half-measures. If he is going to hide an American
aircraft plant from the threat of Japanese aerial spies he has an
almighty job on his hands. He will need an army of props and actors
to make the Lockheed factory vanish behind the semblance of a
suburban town. Every day, his "Residents" climb through a trapdoor
in the factory roof to shift model cars, shop for imaginary
groceries and rotate fake sheep in felt-green meadows. Overland is
a beacon for the young women labouring below it: Queenie, dreaming
of movie stardom while welding sheet metal; Kay, who must seek
refuge from the order to intern "All Persons of Japanese Ancestry".
Meanwhile, George's right-hand Resident, Jimmy, knows that High
Command aren't at all happy with the camouflage project... With
George so bewitched by his own illusion, might it risk confusing
everybody - not just the enemy? Overland is a book like no other --
to be read in landscape format. Based on true events, it is a novel
where characters' dreams and desires come down to earth with more
than a bump, confronting the hardships of life during wartime. As
surreal and playful as it is affecting and unsettling, no-one other
than Graham Rawle could have created it.
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