Fat of the Land
Jim Morgan(Author)
Allen & Unwin (Publisher)
Published on 1. August 1998
Book
Paperback/Softback
300 pages
978-1-86448-760-2 (ISBN)
Description
'Morgan captures something essentially Australian.' HELEN ELLIOTT, SUNDAY AGE 'I couldn't imagine anyone handling such fictional country better.' MELBOURNE TIMES 'Other Australian writers have dealt with the slippery question of class distinctions, but none has done so with such even-handed sympathy for all concerned as does Morgan.' WHO WEEKLY 'Morgan's is an outstanding novel; it must be among Australia's outstanding books for this year.' BARBARA JEFFERIS, SYDNEY MORNING HERALD Fat of the Land charts three generations of South Australian merchants who move between Adelaide, London and their mining company in New Caledonia. The original partners are Thomas Rutland, a bluff Bedford farm boy with a beautiful voice and ambitions to found a dynasty and Robert Grahame, a dour Scot and pastoralist. We see his son, John Grahame, take over the reins of the growing empire and guide it through hard times despite the tragedies in his personal life, only to hand over to a man of the new breed, Victor Godwin, to whom the actual business of the company means little other than the satisfaction of his own lust for money, power and fle
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Language
English
Place of publication
Sydney
Australia
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 195 mm
Width: 130 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-86448-760-2 (9781864487602)
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Person
JIM MORGAN was born in Adelaide in 1932. Jim has run holdings large and small but in the last decade has chosen instead to tell stories of love and betrayal in the bush, of the social devastation of soldier settlement in a changing society and, more recently, what it means to be a male artist in a postmodern world. He moved to Melbourne in 1988 with his wife, artist Katherine Hattam and children. They now live in country Victoria. His previous novels are Parakeet (1991), Loving Helen (1994) and The Artist's Wife (1995).