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Issue Details: First known date: 2000... 2000 A Straight Young Back
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David Apps is just 23 when he comes to Eraro. His mentor, the charismatic Hal Franklin, had undertaken the first government patrols in the area, and carries a deep arrow scar in his thigh. Eraro brings David the heady taste of power-and temptation. But as Papua New Guinea teeters on the brink of independence, Franklin-now a District Commissioner-is brutally murdered. Nineteen years later, David has the opportunity to return to the country and confront the killers. And perhaps achieve some kind of atonement for his own past. What he discovers is a side to Hal Franklin he never guessed at. Inspired by the true story of what is possibly the only political assassination in Australian history, this powerful novel explores the seduction and impossibility of colonial rule and the corruption, idealism and complexity of the men who served it. (Publisher's blurb, back cover).

Notes

  • Dedication: For my mother and father

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Pymble, Turramurra - Pymble - St Ives area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Flamingo , 2000 .
      Extent: 280p.
      ISBN: 0732264146

Works about this Work

Treasure Island Tim Flannery , 2000 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 9 September 2000; (p. 12)

— Review of A Straight Young Back Trevor Shearston , 2000 single work novel
Plot Full of Power Traps Dorothy Johnston , 2000 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times Sunday Times , 25 June 2000; (p. 54)

— Review of A Straight Young Back Trevor Shearston , 2000 single work novel
Complex Young Official Anthony May , 2000 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 17 June 2000; (p. 7)

— Review of A Straight Young Back Trevor Shearston , 2000 single work novel
Small-Town Life Forms Michael Sharkey , 2000 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 13-14 May 2000; (p. 14)

— Review of Idle Hour in the County of Hope Julie Simpson , 2000 single work novel ; A Straight Young Back Trevor Shearston , 2000 single work novel
Small-Town Life Forms Michael Sharkey , 2000 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 13-14 May 2000; (p. 14)

— Review of Idle Hour in the County of Hope Julie Simpson , 2000 single work novel ; A Straight Young Back Trevor Shearston , 2000 single work novel
Complex Young Official Anthony May , 2000 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 17 June 2000; (p. 7)

— Review of A Straight Young Back Trevor Shearston , 2000 single work novel
Plot Full of Power Traps Dorothy Johnston , 2000 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times Sunday Times , 25 June 2000; (p. 54)

— Review of A Straight Young Back Trevor Shearston , 2000 single work novel
Treasure Island Tim Flannery , 2000 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 9 September 2000; (p. 12)

— Review of A Straight Young Back Trevor Shearston , 2000 single work novel
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