3 Books by Venero Armanno
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Overview: Venero Armanno is the author of Jumping at the Moon, a short story collection, and many critically acclaimed novels, including The Dirty Beat, Romeo of the Underworld, Firehead, The Volcano and Candle Life. Firehead was shortlisted for the Best Fiction Book Award in the 1999 Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards; The Volcano won the award in 2002. His books have been published in the US, France, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Holland, Israel and South Korea. Black Mountain is Armanno’s tenth work of fiction. He lives and writes in Brisbane.
Genre: General Fiction
Dirty Beat
In this sea of memory, Max recalls the tragedies, people and relationships that defined his life. From his first love Maree Kilmister he learned about sex; from his great love Debbie Canova he learned about loss; and from the enigmatic Laetecia Sparks, he learned about hope. As the players in his life gather for his funeral, he has one last chance to relive his past and see it for what it was.Driven by music and passion, The Dirty Beat shimmers with an electric intensity.
Burning Down
What if you had one last chance to make amends? Award-winning novelist Venero Armanno returns with a gripping novel about the high price of success.
Charlie Smoke is living out his early retirement from the boxing ring as a bricklayer. It is the mid-1970s and he believes his best days are behind him. He’s lost his wife and daughter to his questionable past, but when he meets Holly Banks and her teenage son, Ricky, he has a chance to do things differently. As an unlikely friendship develops with Ricky, Charlie is unwittingly pulled back into the gambling underworld he thought he’d left behind. In order to make a new future, first he must help settle some old scores.
Burning Down is a searing new novel from acclaimed storyteller Venero Armanno about family, regret, love and the promise of salvation.
Black Mountain
Beginning in the sulphur mines of Sicily over a century ago, Black Mountain takes you on a journey through time and back again. When a boy sold into slavery finds the courage to escape his brutal life, he is saved by a mysterious stranger, who raises the boy as his own. Renamed Cesare Montenero after Sicily’s own ‘black mountain’, Mount Etna, the boy grows up to discover that his rescue was no accident, that his physical strength is unnatural, and that he has more in common with his saviour than he could have imagined. And when he meets the enigmatic Celeste, he suspects for the first time that he many not be alone. Based on factual events and ranging through Italy, Paris and the rural fringes of coastal Australia, Black Mountain is a haunting exploration of what it means to be human.
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