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The Colonials
The Colonials
The Colonials
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Nearly half a century ago, a young Australian journalist without a newspaper decided to try his hand at writing a novel.
He was Brian Fitzpatrick, who was later to win public notice as an historian, as a radical polemicist and lobbyist on the fringe of the Labour movement, and as first General Secretary of the Australian Council for Civil Liberties.
Yet The Colonials is far more a ‘psychological’ novel than a social panorama or a story with a plot. It was surely the first Australian novel to capture the nuance of a school-teacher’s condition—underpaid, conscious of moral superiority to his more vulgar and less well-informed neighbours, resentful of his low standing in a society differentiated by income or appearances more than intelligence or respectability. There is ample plunder here for social historians of the more predatory sort.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateSep 1, 2013
ISBN9780522864489
The Colonials
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Brian Fitzpatrick

Brian Fitzpatrick was born and raised in Southern California, and still resides there with his wife and son. His early exposure to horror and science fiction influenced his writing from the beginning. Mechcraft came to him while reading up on the advances of Nanotechnology in the medical field.

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