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Corrugated Roads

By Ginny Lowndes
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Published: June 18, 2011
Words: 60411 (approximate)
Language: English


Short description

If you liked Cloudstreet (Tim Winton) or Poor Man's Orange (Ruth Park) then you will love Corrugated Roads - A Bugger of a Kid. It is about a young girl who grows up in a drought-stricken Outback Australian town that was almost crippled by conservatism and Catholicism in the 1950s.

Extended description

If you liked Cloudstreet (Tim Winton) or Poor Man's Orange (Ruth Park) then you will love Corrugated Roads - A Bugger of a Kid. It is about a young girl's funny and sometimes heartbreaking interpretation of the tragic and just plain bewildering events in her family's life in a drought-stricken Outback town in Australia's 1950s.

Geoffrey Dean (Writer) described it as "a gritty telling and a book I couldn't put down. And, in spite of its serious subject matter, there is relief in the unexpected humour that arises out of the girl's imaginative misconceptions about events beyond her experience."

Alan Marshall, Writer (I Can Jump Puddles) said, "Her stories are amazingly varied... but tying them all together is a natural understanding of human character and a keen eye to record the significant. These are extremely modern and frank stories."

Corrugated Roads - A Bugger of a Kid - is the first in a five-part series about an Australian woman's life.

Tags

family drama, humour, australia, the outback

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