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Kangaroo
A landmark D. H. Lawrence novel, considered to be among the best writing about Australia.
A landmark D. H. Lawrence novel, considered to be among the best writing about Australia
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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.’
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Kangaroo by D.H. Lawrence is praised for its vivid and detailed portrayal of Australia, with the settings being some of the most evocative in literature about the country. Critics highlight its acute observations and modern commentary on Australian society, noting a wonderful sense of immediacy in the narrative that holds lasting relevance.
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ISBN: 9781925773187
Publisher: Text Publishing
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 29 October 2018
Country: Australia
Imprint: The Text Publishing Company
Audience: General / adult
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Width: 129.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 496
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About the Author
D. H. Lawrence, born in England in 1885, is one of the key figures in literary modernism. Among his most notable novels are Sons and Lovers (1913), Women in Love (1920) and Lady Chatterley’s Lover (1928). Kangaroo (1923) was published the year after Lawrence and his wife, Frieda, spent three months in Australia. Lawrence died in France in 1930.
Nicolas Rothwell is the award-winning author of Quicksilver, Belomor, Heaven & Earth, Wings of the Kite-Hawk, Another Country, The Red Highway and Journeys to the Interior. He was a senior writer for the Australian.
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