Born: Established: 1907 ; Died: Ceased: 5 Aug 1987 Killara, Chatswood - Gordon - Castlecrag area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,
Gender:
Male
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The Sunlit Plain
Sydney
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Angus and Robertson
,
1958
Z183141
1958
single work
novel
Eddie West, orphaned when his parents are drowned in a flood, grows up in poverty on the outskirts of a small town in western New South Wales. But Eddie is shrewd, ambitious and enterprising; he takes a job with a shifty skin-buyer and sets out undaunted to become a successful business-man. His fortunes are important to his adopted family - the patient mother, the spendthrift son, and the daughter whose rival suitors are the proprietor of a buckjumping show and a police trooper who takes an uncomfortably close interest in illegal skin-buying. The action moves between the sleeepy, dusty town, with its apparent monotony hiding human currents that at times break the surface with explosive force, and the Lonely Jackeroo, a little pub out on the vast plains, whose proprietor has an attractive daughter and a vital interest in the success of Eddie's career. (Publisher's blurb).
- 1956 second The Sydney Morning Herald Literary Competition — Novels Section
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