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My Brother Jack
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Acknowledged as one of the true Australian classics, a deeply satisfying, complex and moving literary masterpiece. David and Jack Meredith grew up in a patriotic suburban Melbourne household during the First World War, but go on to lead lives that could not be more different.
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AuthorGeorge Johnston
George Johnston was a renowned journalist who wrote prolifically, publishing several books and diaries during the 1940s on his experience of war in New Guinea, China, Burma and Italy. After World War II, he lived in Greece with his wife, the writer Charmain Clift. His novels My Brother Jack and Clean Straw for Nothing both won the Miles Franklin award and he was awarded an OBE in 1969.
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Who loved this book?Hannie Rayson, playwright
This is my all-time favourite Australian novel. The quality I most admire is the skill with which the personal story of David Meredith is woven into the grand sweep of history. When the Morning Post editor describes Meredith's prose as 'writing that makes us taste and smell and feel as though we were there' - so it is with George Johnston. He has a surety with his story-telling that keeps us turning pages and an innate feel for the drama of every incident. The evocation of life over three decades is gloriously rich in detail and insight but he never wastes time scene setting. The story hits the ground running and rips along as he tenderly builds each character. In laying bare the flaws of David Meredith, a portrait of Australia emerges ravaged by war and depression, full of insecurity and bombast, aggression and ordinary decency.
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