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'Pascal talks about F. B. Vickers's The Mirage and "Half-Caste" Aboriginals. F. B. Vickers's The Mirage is a novel that has not been well remembered. Reviewers of the mid 1950s who noticed it were admiring, especially those who had themselves written works focusing upon Aboriginal Australians. Roland Robinson wrote that it was "important both as a work of art and as a plea for understanding and reform" (24); Gavin Casey's Sunday Telegraph review declared "its appearance would be a major literary event in any month in any country" (26 June 1955). In private letters to Vickers, prominent writers were equally effusive.' (Editor's abstract)
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Epigraph: I stuck to it because I had faith in the story and its message-one I wanted to put over if it was the one and only novel I ever wrote.
-FB Vickers, handwritten note on an early typescript draft of The Mirage (dated May 1958)
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- Though Poppies Grow : A Novel 1958 single work novel
- The Mirage 1955 single work novel
- No Man is Himself : A Novel 1969 single work novel
