#19827 - Riverslake - Canberra's first novel?

Resource ID

19827

Title/subtitle

Riverslake - Canberra's first novel?

Author/Creator

Prance, Jon

Format

Journal article

Identifier

Hungerford, Thomas; literature

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.

Location

Newsletters ed.387, June 2003

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.