What is the quintessential Australian novel?
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Now that you mention it I've never had literature and Australians in my mind at the same time.
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For The Term Of His Natural Life maybe, or for something more contemporary Gould's Book Of Fish or some other Flanagan could be a good option
>>24859712>that picAustralia really is a dystopian nanny state
>>24859712Tank Girl
Wake in FrightFor a picture of an Australia we've lost: Such is LifeMaybe Carpentaria, to send cunts here mad.Maybe The Unknown Industrial Prisoner for what Australia becameVoss is the traditional answerDeath of a River Guide is a good neglected option.Or, as a more sensible choice, The Magic Pudding
Moonlite is the best forgotten choice though:A Norse speaker from the outer-outer hebrides gets shunted into Industrialising Scotland during the clearances. Becomes a priest, a bootlegger, and Enlightenment man of science; get transported to Australia, becomes a politican than an Aboriginal. From the Stone Age to the Industrial Age and back gain.
>>24859712The Slap
The “quintessential Australian novel” would be something boring as fuck because every self-conscious dickhead has been trying to write “national literature” for the past century. It’s so dry. The actual best novel to capture the Australian spirit was probably DH Lawrence’s ‘Kangaroo’ and he wasn’t even in the country for more than a year. So instead I will mention other interesting Australian books. One of them is ‘The Everlasting Secret Family’ by Frank Moorhouse. It is a collection of four different short stories. One of them is about a liberal woman who gets raped by an Aboriginal man. The eponymous story is about a secret society of pederasts in the conservative party.
>>24859848They love their prisons. Wonder why sagging your pants didn't become popular there for easy entry.
>>24859712That outdoor market at Chatswood is 10 minutes away from me.Also fuck pigeons, they're disgusting.
>>24859712N by John A. Scott. published April, 2014
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>>24859712Also a strong contender
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