The atomic bomb and a near-death experience shadow Richard Flanagan's autobiographical Question 7
- Written by: Dan Dixon, Adjunct Lecturer, University of Sydney
Rapids on the Franklin River, Tasmania.Taras Vyshnya/ShutterstockThe most astonishing and accomplished sequence in Richard Flanagan’s Question 7 arrives near the book’s end, as he describes the near-death experience that inspired his first novel, Death of a River Guide, published in 1994.
It reads as if Flanagan has spent the book...