Homesickness Text Classics

Author: Bail Murray

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Price : 12.95 AUD
ISBN : 9781921922619
Publisher : Text Publishing Company
Imprint : Text Publishing Company
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Weight (g) : 0.305
Publication date : 01 January 2012
Dimensions : 198mm X 129mm
Produced in : Australia
RRP : 12.95
Availability date : 01 May 2012
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Product Type : books

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Author : Bail Murray
Bind : Paperback
Edition : 1
Pages : 432
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9781921922619

Description

"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.

Awards

Winner of Age Book of the Year 1980 and National Book Council Award for Australian Literature 1980.