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Alan Marshall ... wrote for a popular audience, to which he conveyed an image of the ordinary Australian as a decent, egalitarian battler, suspicious of authority but always ready to help his mates ... he also created an image of himself as one of them who had, helped by his rural community, overcome the particular disadvantage of infantile paralysis with courage and good humour ... Toward the end of his life, however, he published a collection of stories that show a dark underside of violence and brutality beneath the surface geniality. Far from destroying the earlier image of the Australian, however, these stories discover a strength by which his people endured their darkness.' (p.85)
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- Hammers over the Anvil 1975 selected work short story autobiography
- These Are My People : Selected Short Stories 1940 selected work short story
- I Can Jump Puddles 1955 single work autobiography
- How Beautiful Are Thy Feet 1949 single work novel
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