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An Iron Rose
by Peter Temple.
HarperCollins, Sydney, 1998.
First Edition paperback.
According to crime fiction scholar Stephen Knight, the influence of American noir writer James Ellroy on South Africa born Australian Peter Temple’s second novel is marked: ‘Going deep into the corrupt past to find the patterns that disturb the present is a characteristic maneuver of the American thriller…Temple’s archaeology is social as well as personal: as Ellroy does, he uncovers vicious exploitation in the past — a quasiChristian camp for paedophile delight matches the horrors of the girls’ home fiercely uncovered in An Iron Rose.’ (‘Peter Temple: Australian Crime Fiction on the World Stage’, CLUES: A Journal of Detection, Volume 29, Number 1, Spring 2011. (pp. 71–81).
In resituating the noir novel in the rural landscape of Gippsland, An Iron Rose pioneered a new and distinctly Australian crime novel.
Condition: Pages tanned, creases down spine, otherwise Very Good.
