In Elizabeth: A Frontier Novel
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Danny Russel, precocious child of Scottish emigrants, is a born survivor. He soon goes native in working-class Elizabeth, South Australia's new model city. In the dusty streets and playgrounds of Elizabeth, Danny and his friends learn to live by their wits. Theirs is a world of stolen pleasures and elemental violence, of endless variations on the 'battle between Good and Evil, though to us then it was more a straightforward question of whether to Kill or Be Killed'. Sometimes frightening, often funny, In Elizabeth follows Danny's progress from prepubescent revolutionary to self-styled Scribe of Elizabeth, and finally to penniless escapee. In this startling first novel, Stewart Henderson casts a bold and ironic eye over the frustrations and fantasies of growing up on the urban frontier.
Author: Stewart Henderson
Format: Paperback, 294 pages, 130mm x 190mm, 320 g
Published: 1997, Wakefield Press, Australia
Genre: General & Literary Fiction
Danny Russel, precocious child of Scottish emigrants, is a born survivor. He soon goes native in working-class Elizabeth, South Australia's new model city. In the dusty streets and playgrounds of Elizabeth, Danny and his friends learn to live by their wits. Theirs is a world of stolen pleasures and elemental violence, of endless variations on the 'battle between Good and Evil, though to us then it was more a straightforward question of whether to Kill or Be Killed'. Sometimes frightening, often funny, In Elizabeth follows Danny's progress from prepubescent revolutionary to self-styled Scribe of Elizabeth, and finally to penniless escapee. In this startling first novel, Stewart Henderson casts a bold and ironic eye over the frustrations and fantasies of growing up on the urban frontier.