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The Watch Tower
London
New York (City)
Melbourne
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Macmillan
St. Martin's Press
,
1966
Z453697
1966
single work
novel
(taught in 2 units)
'Breaking their poses like trees snapping branches, the women urgently regarded each other, cleared away all signs of work in an instant, examined their souls for defects, in a sense crossed themselves, and waited.
'After Laura and Clare are abandoned by their mother, Felix is there to help, even to marry Laura if she will have him. Little by little the two sisters grow complicit with his obsessions, his cruelty, his need to control.
'Set in the leafy northern suburbs of Sydney during the 1940s, The Watch Tower is a novel of relentless and acute psychological power.' (Publication summary)
Melbourne : Text Publishing , 2012
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