Nowhere

Josh, self-professed vagrant and ex-communist, lives in a hut on the edge of the Showground in Dry Torrent, a town whose affluence dried up when the river did. He shares his days with Blue, a Vietnam veteran whose car broke down at that spot and saw no reason to keep moving. When Vonnie, a young Aboriginal woman fleeing the city, her abusive pimp and a drug habit arrives, the quiet lives of Josh and Blue are now changed forever.

The fate of these three unlikely friends is written with compassion and humour by that 'genial dragon-lady of Australian writing', Dorothy Hewett.