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    Scrapheap of Dreams
    Scrapheap of Dreams
    Scrapheap of Dreams
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    Scrapheap of Dreams

    By Bruce Hanna

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    Fourteen compassionate stories, from high society to the lowest, set at the fringes of reality where dreams prey on people’s lives. These highly engrossing and often humorous stories immerse you in an intriguing variety of lives touched by obsession, prejudice, poverty, Asian voodoo, desire and lust, love, violence, crime and madness, false confidence and unfounded fears.

    A cast of quirky characters collide in ambiguous situations, pressured by racial friction and religious divisions, financial and family tensions, unhappy love affairs and life-changing conflicts:
    -a photographer's life-long devotion to a powerful journalist wins out against her taste for pretty young men
    - an ambitious gigolo enters a beautiful and violent world of immense wealth, reverse racism, drug-popping chauffers, private jets, cops on the payroll and murder victims falling out of the sky...
    - a scruffy barefoot romantic pursues a decrepit crone protected by a swarm of hungry orphans...
    - a junkie finds friendship in a fashionable mystery-lady at a funeral....
    - a captive man lives in fear of a psychopathic neighbour’s fire-breathing dog....
    - an ambitious doctor walks cheerfully through a remote village to perform a politically-sensitive abortion but life has other plans....
    - a free and sometimes easy woman is used to repay a husband’s debt to his brother....
    - the marriage of a devoutly religious couple is shattered by a dope-smoking brother-in-law until prayers are answered in flames....
    - a frigid TV beauty seeks sanctuary in a mirror to escape the nightmare of life's senseless cruelty....
    - a high-ranking French cop in a Mediterranean resort village cannot understand why the woman of his dreams falls under the spell of a murder suspect....
    - an Australian family divided by political prejudices fights the Cold War across their kitchen table, prior to the downfall of the Communist Party....
    - an aged literary-minded patron of prostitutes rebels against his feminist wife in a misogynist fiasco....
    - a highly-educated toilet attendant pursues a cunning one-legged woman, despite being stalked by the corpse of her dead husband...
    And – an Australian war veteran unleashes havoc in Bangkok to escape the clutches of the Thai underworld.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBruce Hanna
    Release dateSep 11, 2017
    ISBN9781370058709
    Scrapheap of Dreams
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    Bruce Hanna

    “I’m no writer. I actually don’t write. The stuff just comes out, like the insides of an insect clinging to the windscreen of a speeding vehicle.” – Bruce HannaAfter growing up among construction sites and factories of western Sydney, Australia, Bruce Hanna became a homeless outlaw, hunted by Federal, State and Army police due to his refusal to collaborate in the USA-led war against Vietnam. He was later granted amnesty under the Whitlam-Barnard Labor government.Hanna’s writing and cartoons appeared on fringes of the Australian press, including The Bulletin, Nation Review, The Australian, Sydney Morning Herald, Tribune and the underground tabloid Paper TV. They may also be found in obscure collections of his poetry, along with Suicide Circus, an illustrated homage to the self-devastation of the human race, along with his PsychoJunk recordings beginning with Mad Dog on Crazy Street (1999).Hanna’s first novel Fatal Moments (published by A&R in 1987) caused Peter Bowler in Canberra Times to remark on a “delicious thread of dry humour running through the high drama” and “the sheer outrageous fecundity of Hanna’s imaginativeness.” Hanna reveals the World in spurts of liquid insight, and outrage etched into his writing by acidic humour, as reflected in Sentimental Traveller (2020) a compassion-fuelled narrative of cross-century travels. Some years ago, his e-books (Babu, Comedy of Turmoil and Scrapheap of Dreams) with Sentimental Traveller were made available free of charge, for educational purposes.

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