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y separately published work icon Homesickness single work   novel   humour  
Issue Details: First known date: 1980... 1980 Homesickness
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Units Teaching this Work

Text Unit Name Institution Year
y separately published work icon Homesickness Murray Bail , South Melbourne : Macmillan , 1980 Z108653 1980 single work novel humour (taught in 1 units)

'It could almost have been their own country: these sections with the gums briefly framed like a traditional oil painting by the slowly passing window. The colours were as brown and parched; that chaff-coloured grass, Ah, this dun-coloured realism. Any minute now the cry of the crow or a cockatoo; but no.

'Thirteen men and women travel the world on a package tour but wherever they go nothing is as it seems.

'Challenged by the unexpected, by differences and subtleties, Bail’s tourists are in turn repelled and attracted—and all are altered.' (Publication summary)

Australian Literature and Society (Contemporary) Edith Cowan University 2009
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