A civilian chaplain records whispered confessions and low urgings,
writing in a notebook during his summer tenure at Sydney's Central
Street Police Station. His 'Summer Exercises' are habitual five
times a day. His terseness can generate feelings so sharp that
sometimes a great notion gets pared clean with a meager swatch of
syllables. In constructing this notebook of a sharp observer,
author Ross Gibson builds a world Sydney, Australia in 1946 sordid
and bruised after decades of depredations. --- This work of fiction
was inspired by 175 carefully selected black and white photographs
from the collection at Sydney's Justice & Police Museum, taken
during the years immediately after World War II. These photographs
(many included in the book), were generated by the New South Wales
Police in the course of their investigations between 1945 and 1960.
They form a visual reference for this richly imagined and
experimental storytelling to take place. Anchored in the realities
of the 1940s, along with Sydney police investigative procedure, The
Summer Exercises is an artistic re-invention of history as it
happened.
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