- Country life, Families, Fiction
Set in hardscrabble farming country and around the country show high-jumping circuit that prevailed in rural New South Wales prior to the Second World War, Foal's Bread tells the story of two generations of the Nancarrow family and their fortunes as dictated by the vicissitudes of the land.
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Earnest, classical in form, grave and contemplative.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Gillian Mears
- First published
- 2011
- Pages
- 361
- Publisher
- Atlantic Books, Limited, Allen & Unwin, Atlantic [distributor]
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781283363310
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