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'Nearly half a century ago, a young Australian journalist without a newspaper decided to try his hand at writing a novel. He was Brian Fitzpatrick, who was later to win public notice as an historian, as a radical polemicist and lobbyist on the fringe of the Labour movement, and as first General Secretary of the Australian Council for Civil Liberties. Yet The Colonials is far more a ‘psychological' novel than a social panorama or a story with a plot. Its was surely the first Australian novel to capture the nuance of a school-teacher's condition—underpaid, conscious of moral superiority to his more vulgar and less well-informed neighbours, resentful of his low standing in a society differentiated by income or appearances more than intelligence or respectability. There is ample plunder here for social historians of the more predatory sort.' (Publisher's blurb)
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Late Release
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , February no. 358 2014; (p. 52)
— Review of The Colonials 2013 single work novel
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Late Release
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , February no. 358 2014; (p. 52)
— Review of The Colonials 2013 single work novel