Kangaroo

Name: Kangaroo
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ISBN: 9781925773187

D.H. Lawrence

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29 October 2018

Fiction & Literature; Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

After the Great War, Richard Lovat Somers, a writer, and Harriet, his wife, leave disillusioned Europe for Australia. Almost immediately, Somers comes into the orbit of the charismatic 'Kangaroo', who leads a shadowy political movement in Sydney. With its astonishing descriptions of the bush 'biding its time with a terrible ageless watchfulness', and its free-form narrative, Kangaroo captivates and provokes. First published in 1923, D. H. Lawrence's semi-autobiographical novel is among the most significant works in Australian literature.

In Nicolas Rothwell's new introduction to Kangaroo, he writes: 'Everyone who seeks to find words that match the Australian landscape is... an inheritor of Lawrence. He made the bush a serious subject for literary endeavour.'

By: D.H. Lawrence
Imprint: Text Publishing Company
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm,
ISBN: 9781925773187
ISBN 10: 1925773183
Pages: 496
Publication Date: 29 October 2018
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Kangaroo

‘The settings in Kangaroo have small trouble in being the most acutely observed and evocative writing about Australia that there has so far been.’ * Clive James * ‘Still the most exquisite account of place in our literature.’ * Geordie Williamson * ‘[A] wonderful sense of immediacy…It may indeed be the first truly modern novel written in Australia…Acute and still pertinent observations about our society.’ * Susan Lever *