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The Hills of Apollo Bay
by Peter Cowan
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- About the Book
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‘… a writer’s writer who has created a position at the leading edge of his craft.’ — Weekend Australian
‘The protest, a lament for that lost ferment of Australian art and ideas and succeeding cultural deadness, is subtle but sure.’ — Hal Colebatch, The West Australian
Richard is a young writer running from his hometown of Perth in search of a freer existence in Melbourne. His best friend is an ex-boxer turned black marketeer and his girlfriend is an old-fashioned “tart” with heart.
Against the background of post-war censorship and isolation, Richard struggles to find cultural nourishment. With a profound dismay about the directions we have followed in the post-war world, Cowan challenges some of our most cherished assumptions about our identity, our culture and the land.
- Category
- Adult Fiction
- Publication Year
- 2009
- Edition
- Australian Classics Edition
- Publisher
- Fremantle Press
- ISBN13
- 9781921361616
- HB/PB
- Paperback
- Format
- B Format (198 x 128mm)
- Pages
- 304
- Other Editions
- Others in this Series
- Sample Chapter
- Hills of Apollo Bay web.pdf
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Wilderness Society Award
Congratulations to Sally Morgan whose book The Last Dance won the Wilderness Society’s 2013 Environment Award for Children’s Literature. Meg McKinlay and Kyle Hughes-Odgers were also shortlisted in the same category for Ten Tiny Things