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The question of illegitimacy echoes throughout Season of Youth. There are three sons: the narrator, the eldest, who leads a dissolute life but whose aspirations to be a writer begin to take shape over the course of the novel; 'Dapper Dan the bastard' who becomes relatively wealthy and successful on the shady - illegitimate - side of the law but who also seems to be the most sentimental towards his mother; and, Peter, the youngest, whose aspirations are petit-bourgeois and whose gifts are for social climbing. ... Dan and Peter vie for favouritism and, at least in the family circle, act like model sons. But the end of the novel, after the mother's death, finds the narrator moving back in with his father as the other two sons clear out. We can scarcely speak of reconcilitation, for nothing much has changed in the relation between father and son ... (David Carter A Career in Writing : Judah Waten and the Cultural Politics of a Literary Career (1997): 236).
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Epigraph: A strange doom is thy father's son's. - Byron.
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- y Migrant Contribution to the Literature of Australia : Judah Waten and the Old Tradition in the New World Calcutta : Writers Workshop , 1987 Z437434 1987 single work criticism biography
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Judah Waten's Latest Novel
1967
single work
review
— Appears in: The Realist , Winter no. 26 1967; (p. 34)
— Review of Season of Youth : A Novel 1966 single work novel -
Waten for Godot
1967
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , February vol. 6 no. 4 1967; (p. 55)
— Review of My Brother Tom 1966 single work novel ; Season of Youth : A Novel 1966 single work novel -
[Review] Season of Youth [and] The Watch Tower
1967
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 7 January 1967; (p. 10)
— Review of Season of Youth : A Novel 1966 single work novel ; The Watch Tower 1966 single work novel -
Unhappy Families
1967
single work
review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 21 January vol. 89 no. 4533 1967; (p. 31)
— Review of Season of Youth : A Novel 1966 single work novel ; The Nature of Love 1966 selected work short story ; An Ornament of Grace 1966 single work novel ; Once There Was a Bagman : a memoir 1966 single work autobiography ; A Rambling Man 1966 single work novel
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Judah Waten's Latest Novel
1967
single work
review
— Appears in: The Realist , Winter no. 26 1967; (p. 34)
— Review of Season of Youth : A Novel 1966 single work novel -
[Review] Season of Youth : A Novel
1966
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 12 November 1966; (p. 24)
— Review of Season of Youth : A Novel 1966 single work novel -
[Review] Season of Youth : A Novel
1966
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 26 November 1966; (p. 21)
— Review of Season of Youth : A Novel 1966 single work novel -
Bosh and Bildugsroman
1967
single work
review
— Appears in: Overland , May no. 36 1967; (p. 44-46)
— Review of Season of Youth : A Novel 1966 single work novel ; Sydney and the Bush : A Light-hearted Adventure Story 1966 single work novel -
[Review] Season of Youth : A Novel
1967
single work
review
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 27 no. 3 1967; (p. 223-224)
— Review of Season of Youth : A Novel 1966 single work novel - y Migrant Contribution to the Literature of Australia : Judah Waten and the Old Tradition in the New World Calcutta : Writers Workshop , 1987 Z437434 1987 single work criticism biography
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