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The lucky galah

Sorensen, Tracy, author

Overview

It's 1969 and a remote coastal town in Western Australia is poised to play a pivotal part in the moon landing. Perched on the red dunes of its outskirts looms the great Dish: a relay for messages between Apollo 11 and Houston, Texas. Radar technician Evan Johnson and his colleagues stare, transfixed, at the moving images on the console - although his glossy young wife, Linda, seems distracted. Meanwhile the people of Port Badminton have gathered to watch Armstrong's small step on a single television sitting centre stage in the old theatre. The Kelly family, a crop of redheads, sit in rare silence. Roo shooters at the back of the hall squint through their rifles to see the tiny screen. I'm in my cage on the Kelly's back verandah. I sit here, unheard, underestimated, biscuit crumbs on my beak. But fate is a curious thing. For just as Evan Johnson's story is about to end (and perhaps with a giant leap), my story prepares to take flight...

• Publisher: Picador, Pan Macmillan Australia Pty Ltd
• Subject: Apollo 11 (Spacecraft) Fiction. / Apollo 11 (Spacecraft) / Cage birds Fiction. / Fate and fatalism Fiction. / Space flight to the moon Fiction. / Satellite dish antennas Fiction. / Villages Fiction. / Australian fiction. / Cage birds. / Fate and fatalism. / Satellite dish antennas. / Space flight to the moon. / Villages.
• ISBN: 9781760552657, 1760552658

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PR9619.4.S627 L83 2018	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE