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Published: June 18, 2011
Words: 60411 (approximate)
Language: English
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Corrugated Roads is about a young girl who grows up in an unfortunate drought-stricken Outback Australian desert town that was almost crippled by conservatism and Catholicism in the 1950s. Her funny and sometimes heartbreaking interpretation of family life is told through 27 linked stories.Extended description
Corrugated Roads 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.Told in 27 inter-linked short stories, Corrugated Roads has been described by writer, Geoffrey Dean 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."
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family drama, growing up, humour, australia, catholicism, rebellion, good times, black people, hard times, aborigines, the outback, white people, bewilderment, going it aloneAvailable ebook reading formats
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