- Fiction, Australia, fiction, Fiction, sagas, Fiction, historical
It is 1934, the Great War is long over and the next is yet to come. It is a brief time of optimism and advancement. Billowing dust and information, the government "Better Farming Train" slides through the wheat fields and small towns of Australia, bringing city experts and advice to those already living on the land.
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Classical in form, grave, earnest and contemplative.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- contemplativerelentless
- cooloverwhelming
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- Author
- Carrie Tiffany
- First published
- 2005
- Pages
- 256
- Publisher
- Picador, Scribner
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780743299947
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