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Fiction

A tree to hang it on

by Martin Eldridge
May 1993, no. 150

Going Away by Martin Flanagan

McPhee Gribble, $18.95pb,

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Martin Flanagan, well-known contributor to The Age newspaper in Melbourne, has written a peregrinatory first novel in which the narrator, Stephen, is hoping to find the connection he feels he doesn’t have with his own land, and consequently with himself.

 


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Going Away by Martin Flanagan

McPhee Gribble, $18.95pb,

ABR receives a commission on items purchased through this link. All ABR reviews are fully independent.


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