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#19827 - Riverslake - Canberra's first novel?

Resource ID
Location
19827
Newsletters ed.387, June 2003
Title/subtitle
Riverslake - Canberra's first novel?
Author/Creator
Prance, Jon
Format
Newsletter article
Identifier
Hungerford, Thomas
Publisher
Canberra & District Historical Society
Summary
Riverslake centres on the issue of post war migration and displaced persons and how they were treated by Australians. It reflects on Australians and their attitude to their country against the background of the developing Canberra.
Notes
In 1953 Tom Hungerford's novel of life in a fictional Canberra workers camp after World War 2 was published. In this Newsletter article the author reviews the book and the semi-autobiographical approach of Hungerford. Book shelved as 823 HUN.