To a Country Town single work   short story   autobiography  
Issue Details: First known date: 1947... 1947 To a Country Town
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  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Coast to Coast : Australian Stories 1946 M. Barnard Eldershaw (editor), Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1947 Z370313 1947 periodical issue short story Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1947 pg. 86-108
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    y separately published work icon Southern Harvest : An Anthology of Australian Short Stories R. F. Brissenden (editor), Melbourne : Macmillan , 1964 Z411777 1964 anthology short story Melbourne : Macmillan , 1964 pg. 232-250
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    y separately published work icon Living Here : Short Stories From Australasia 1938-1988 Edmund Campion (editor), Sydney : Allen and Unwin , 1988 Z95233 1988 anthology short story Sydney : Allen and Unwin , 1988 pg. 40-54
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    y separately published work icon Pomegranates : A Century of Jewish Australian Writing Gael Hammer (editor), Newtown : Millennium Books , 1988 Z332746 1988 anthology poetry short story criticism autobiography correspondence Newtown : Millennium Books , 1988 pg. 79-95
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    y separately published work icon Alien Son Judah Waten , Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1952 Z53291 1952 selected work short story autobiography (taught in 2 units)

    'Alien Son, in simple yet rich language, is the story of a Russian family settling in Australia in the years before the first World War.  Waten tells of life in his home, among the family's Jewish friends, among his new Australian playmates, on his father's bottle-o rounds - of their hopes, despairs, the comedies and tragedies - all told with the warmth, understanding, and sometimes lack of understanding, that is felt by a child finding himself between the two worlds.  His attempts to reconcile the demands of these two worlds rarely meet with success; often they end in situations that are at once poignantly sad and humorous.'

    Source: Publisher's blurb (Australian Classics ed.).

         North Ryde : Angus and Robertson , 1989     pg. 1-21
Subjects:
  • Country towns,
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