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Aurora Press

Homesickness by Murray Bail & Monkeys in the Dark by Blanche d’Alpuget

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October 1980, no. 25
Alan Gould reviews 'Homesickness' by Murray Bail and 'Monkeys in the Dark' by Blanche d’Alpuget

I found Murray Bail’s novel Homesickness a work of brilliant and resonant artistry, which despite many unlikely incidents, succeeds in being thoroughly credible in all its parts. It is also a desolating book, a comedy, but a very black one.

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