Seaforth MacKenzie
Seaforth MacKenzie
i(A55987 works by)
(a.k.a.
Kenneth Mackenzie)
Writing name for:
Kenneth Mackenzie
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The Young Desire It : A Novel
London
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Jonathan Cape
,
1937
Z182314
1937
single work
novel
(taught in 1 units)
'In the late afternoon of a day in February, that hottest of Australian summer months, when a brutal sun stood bronze above the river flats which you may see from the dormitory windows of Chatterton, Charles came to the school with his mother, walking from the railway station to the gates by a private path across a burnt, untidy field, overhung with Cape lilacs that still drooped, dusty and melancholy…In the lower part of his belly fear kicked and pulsed like a child in the womb, ready to be born.
'Fifteen-year-old Charles Fox is sent away to boarding school, innocent, alone and afraid. There one of his masters develops an intense attachment to him. But when Charles meets Margaret, a girl staying at a nearby farm for the holidays, he is besotted, and a passionate, unforgettable romance begins. ' (Publication summary : Text Classics)
- 1937 winner ASAL Awards — ALS Gold Medal
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