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Issue Details: First known date: 2016... 2016 DH Lawrence's 99 Days in Australia : Volume Two : The Silvery Freedom ... & the Horrible Paws
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'The Silvery Freedom ... and the Horrible Paws is the story of how DH Lawrence's 8th major novel, Kangaroo, was composed and written. The title refers to Lawrence's realisation - half-way through writing the book - that he had stumbled on a secret para-military organisation in Australia in 1922. "It was as if," he wrote in Kangaroo, "the silvery freedom suddenly turned, and showed the scaly back of a reptile, and the horrible paws."

'This is a story that many people and interests tried to prevent coming out. It reveals the fascist underbelly of post-WW1 Australian society and politics.

'It is the second volume of the author's Lawrence's 99 Days in Australia, which together tell the story of how the 20th-century's most controversial author came to write his most surprising work of "fiction".' (Publication summary)

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    • Strawberry Hills, Inner Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales,: Svengall Press , 2016 .
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      Extent: 314p.
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      • Published: 1st September 2016
      ISBN: 9781925416411
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y separately published work icon DH Lawrence's 99 Days in Australia : Volume One : The Quest for Cooley 'The Quest for Colley' Robert Darroch , Strawberry Hills : Svengall Press , 2016 10246607 2016 single work criticism

'The Quest for Cooley is the story of the 40-year search for the identity of the real life figure that DH Lawrence portrayed as the Australian political leader Benjamin Cooley in his 1923 Australian novel, Kangaroo. Through his intensive research in Australia and overseas, Robert Darroch, a former investigative journalist on The Bulletin, discovered that Lawrence ran across an actual secret army in Sydney in 1922, and unmasked it in his novel of Australia. This is a story that many people and interests have tried to prevent coming out. It exposes the fascist underbelly - what Lawrence called "the horrible paws" - of post-WW1 Australian society and politics.' (Publication summary)
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  • Kangaroo D. H. Lawrence , 1923 single work novel
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