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Argues that Facey's autobiography shows 'just how persuasive the art of understatement is ... in the writing of this ordinary Australian, addressing the larger issues of life with the simple means afforded by his culture' (38).
"Attempts to give this narrative poem a new reading in the light of modern critical theory, calling it a neglected work that creates in the critic a desire 'to more fully interpret' it." (Robert Ross, Australian Literary Criticism, 1945-1988, p. 254.)