North

9781922571717
Puncher and Wattmann
Lindsay Barrett
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A group of aimless young blokes from the suburbs of Sydney go troppo in 1980s North Queensland as all around them, men fuelled by the resources boom tear up the landscape with abandon. If Jack Kerouac had been Australian he might have come up with something like North, a tale of Australian masculinity searching for itself, while learning that we need to tread softly on the land if we are to have any sort of a future.

9781922571717
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Lindsay Barrett is an Australian writer, academic, filmmaker and museum curator working primarily in the field of Australian cultural history. His previous books are The Prime Minister’s Christmas Card: Blue Poles and Cultural Politics in the Whitlam Era and New Year’s Day at the Hotel Australia.

9781922571717
9781922571717