Bibliograph

The Gulp, Alan Baxter

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The Gulp, Alan Baxter

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The Gulp

Responsibility statement

Alan Baxter

Summary

The isolated Australian harbour town of Gulpepper is not like other places. Some maps don't even show it. And only outsiders use the full name. Everyone who lives there calls it The Gulp. The place has a habit of swallowing people. A truck driver thinks the stories about The Gulp are made up to scare him. Until he gets there. Teenage siblings try to cover up the death of their mother, but their plans go drastically awry. A rock band invite four backpackers to a party at their house, where things get dangerously out of hand. A young man loses a drug shipment and his boss gives him 48 hours to make good on his mistake. Under the blinking eye of the old lighthouse, a rock fisher makes the strangest catch of his life. Five novellas. Five descents into darkness. Welcome to The Gulp, where nothing is as it seems

Table Of Contents

Out on a rim -- Mother in bloom -- The band plays on -- 48 to go -- Rock fisher -- Afterword -- Glossary

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