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Working Bullocks
by Katherine Susannah Prichard.
Sirius (A&R imprint), Sydney, 1980.
Reprint, paperback.
Introduction by John A Hay.
The second novel by the social realist writer. First published by Jonathan Cape, 1926, Working Bullocks‘s love story between a bullock team driver and a local girl is set within the Western Australian Karri timber industry. According to Hays, the significance of the novel is the ‘elemental relatedness between character and landscape’ showing the influence of Emily Bronte and DH Lawrence. Compare this with the entry in the Oxford Companion to Australian Literature (1994) edited by Joy Hooton and Barry Andrews which reads the work as engaging centrally with Marx’s ‘alienation of man’s labour.’ A novel which lends itself to different readings. (p.630)
Condition: Very good.
