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100			_aReinecke, Carl
245			_aBooks that made us : _cCarl Reinecke foreword by Claudia Karavan
260			_aSydney : _bHarperCollins ; _c2021
300			_a368 pages : _c24 cm.
520			_aA cultural history of Australia told through our fiction. Australia's novels lie at the heart of the country. Capturing everyday lives and exceptional dreams, they have held up a mirror to the nation, reflecting the good and the bad. In this companion book to the ABC TV series, Carl Reinecke looks at the history of Australian culture through the books we have read and the stories we have told. Touching on colonial invasion, the bush myth, world wars, mass migration, the recognition of Indigenous sovereignty and the emergence of a modern, global, multicultural nation Carl examines how these pivotal events and persuasive ideas have shaped some of Australia's most influential novels, and how these books, in turn, made us. In a panoramic account of Australian fiction stretching from Marcus Clarke to Melissa Lucashenko, Patrick White to Peter Carey, and Henry Handel Richardson to Michelle de Kretser, this is a new history of key authors and compelling books that have kept us reading and made a difference for over 200 years.
650			_aBiography, Literature & Literary studies
650			_aLiterary studies: general
650			_a2D graphics: games programming
650			_aBiography & Autobiography - Literary
650			_aBiography: literary
650			_aLiterature: history & criticism
650			_aLiterary Criticism - Books & Reading
650			_aLiterary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
650			_aAustralasian & Pacific history
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