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Eddie West, orphaned when his parents are drowned in a flood, grows up in poverty on the outskirts of a small town in western New South Wales. But Eddie is shrewd, ambitious and enterprising; he takes a job with a shifty skin-buyer and sets out undaunted to become a successful business-man. His fortunes are important to his adopted family - the patient mother, the spendthrift son, and the daughter whose rival suitors are the proprietor of a buckjumping show and a police trooper who takes an uncomfortably close interest in illegal skin-buying. The action moves between the sleeepy, dusty town, with its apparent monotony hiding human currents that at times break the surface with explosive force, and the Lonely Jackeroo, a little pub out on the vast plains, whose proprietor has an attractive daughter and a vital interest in the success of Eddie's career. (Publisher's blurb).
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
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Untitled
1959
single work
review
— Appears in: Walkabout , vol. 25 no. 7 1959; (p. 39)
— Review of The Sunlit Plain 1958 single work novel ; All the Rivers Run 1978 selected work novel -
The Middle Rank
1959
single work
review
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 20 no. 1 1959; (p. 50-51)
— Review of The Sunlit Plain 1958 single work novel -
Untitled
1958
single work
review
— Appears in: The Times Literary Supplement , 12 December 1958; (p. 717)
— Review of The Sunlit Plain 1958 single work novel -
Untitled
1958
single work
review
— Appears in: Twentieth Century , vol. 13 no. 1958; (p. 174-175)
— Review of The Sunlit Plain 1958 single work novel -
Untitled
1958
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 23 August 1958; (p. 13)
— Review of The Sunlit Plain 1958 single work novel ; Girl With a Monkey 1958 single work novel ; Snowball 1958 single work novel
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Taken from Real Life
1957
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 19 January 1957; (p. 16)
— Review of The Sunlit Plain 1958 single work novel -
A Prize Novel
1958
single work
review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 3 September vol. 79 no. 4099 1958; (p. 2)
— Review of The Sunlit Plain 1958 single work novel -
Quiet Authenticity
1958
single work
review
— Appears in: Westerly , no. 2 1958; (p. 37-38)
— Review of The Sunlit Plain 1958 single work novel -
Untitled
1958
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 23 August 1958; (p. 13)
— Review of The Sunlit Plain 1958 single work novel ; Girl With a Monkey 1958 single work novel ; Snowball 1958 single work novel -
Untitled
1958
single work
review
— Appears in: Twentieth Century , vol. 13 no. 1958; (p. 174-175)
— Review of The Sunlit Plain 1958 single work novel
Awards
- 1956 second The Sydney Morning Herald Literary Competition — Novels Section
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Subjects:
- Bush,
- Coonamble, Coonamble area, Coonabarabran - Gilgandra - Coonamble area, Central West NSW, New South Wales,
- Country towns,
Settings:
- 1950s
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