The Boys Who Stole the Funeral: A Novel Sequence

by Les A. Murray

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Reprint of a sequence of 140 sonnets that tells of two young men who steal the body of an old friend from a city undertaker in order to bury the deceased in his rural homeland as he had wished. First published in 1980. The author is one of Australia's most internationally respected poets.

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Reprint of a sequence of 140 sonnets that tells of two young men who steal the body of an old friend from a city undertaker in order to bury the deceased in his rural homeland as he had wished. First published in 1980. The author is one of Australia's most internationally respected poets.

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