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Leslie Haylen (1898–1977)

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Obres de Leslie Haylen

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Altres noms
Woodfield, Sutton
Data de naixement
1898-09-23
Data de defunció
1977-09-12
Gènere
male
Nacionalitat
Australia
Professions
politician
journalist
Organitzacions
Australian Labour Party

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This turns out to be a good, old-fashioned rural coming-of-age story, set on a small Australian farm against the background of the 1931 drought and the Great Depression. Red's father, Paddie, is an alcoholic; his octogenarian grandmother rules the farm with an iron rod from her wheelchair on the verandah, and it's teenage Red who ends up doing most of the farm-work. But he'd far rather be reading poetry and socialist texts...

Slightly clumsy in parts, and occasionally seems to forget which decade we're meant to be in (quite a lot reads like the author's own childhood in the horse-and-buggy days of the 1910s, but in other parts there are details of life from the fifties popping up) but obviously written by someone with real experience of rural life and knowledge of what it's like to live on a farm and in a small community. A bit too much fist-fighting for my taste, though.… (més)
 
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thorold | Aug 11, 2020 |

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Obres
7
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14
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½ 2.3
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