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Strutton's book was one of the sources for Thomas Keneally's Season in Purgatory, and Keneally's use of similar material led to a controversy about plagiarism which resulted in an out-of-court settlement (for details see Pierce, Australian Melodramas, 15-17).
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Dedication: To Jim Rickett: The most Terrible Friend of all.
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In an Author's Note, Strutton wrote that this is a true story. In other sources he has also referred to the book as non-fiction. The book was written in the first person and has other qualities of fiction.
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Row Over Book Similarities
1977
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criticism
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 4 June vol. 99 no. 5060 1977; (p. 20)
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Row Over Book Similarities
1977
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 4 June vol. 99 no. 5060 1977; (p. 20)
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