#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.