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Ride on Stranger
by Kylie Tennant.
Imprint Classics (Angus & Robertson), Sydney, 1990.
Reprint, paperback.
With an introduction by Kerry Goldsworthy.
Cover Painting: ‘Head of Girl’ by Bernard Minisky.
‘You’re still looking,’ he paused, ‘for something worthwhile?’
‘I gave that up’. Yes, she thought, it was true. In the world in which she found herself she didn’t believe that half a dozen changes of the social system would cleanse the sewers of human ignorance and stupidity.’ (p. 193)
Written in the middle of the second world war, Tennant’s fifth novel is a satire on doing good. Shannon Hicks’s journey through Sydney’s theosophical community, the Communist Party and the peace movement are subject to Tennant’s ruthless wit, the quest inevitably ending in disillusionment. Tennant’s habit of using real people as models and not bothering to change their names also ended badly when a communist called Chateris recognised himself and threatened Angus & Robertson with libel. The 1943 A &R edition was subsequently withdrawn.
Condition: Stiff paperback with rubbing to back cover and weakening of spine. No loose pages.
