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Issue Details: First known date: 1943... 1943 Ride on Stranger
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'"Civilization is mad and getting madder every day".

'So says Shannon Hicks in Kylie Tennant's marvellous, harsh, satiric 1943 novel. Arriving in Sydney just before WWII, Shannon, a dreamer and idealist takes on the world of politics, business, religion and men.

'The consequences are challenging and unpredictable.'

Source: Publisher's Blurb (A&R Classics).

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form y separately published work icon Ride on Stranger Peter Yeldham , ABC Television (publisher), ( dir. Carl Schultz ) Sydney : Australian Broadcasting Commission , 1979 Z1489583 1979 series - publisher film/TV

Set in the 1930s, Ride on Stranger focuses on the life of country girl Shannon Jones. After working for her aunt as a maid, Shannon moves to Sydney, where she becomes involved with a religious sect.

For a detailed, episode-by-episode synopsis, see Film Details.

Notes

  • Epigraph: passage from Discourses of Epictetus, Book I, Chapter II.

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Language: German
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  • Also braille, sound recording.
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  • Sydney, New South Wales,
  • Urban,
  • 1930s
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