'How is the Great Australian Novel going?' Not too bad, thanks
- Written by: Nicholas Jose, Professor of English and Creative Writing, University of Adelaide
“How is The Great Australian Novel going?” asks a character in Thea Astley’s The Well Dressed Explorer, a Miles Franklin Literary Award winner in 1962.
When the weighty Cambridge History of THE AUSTRALIAN NOVEL (as the title reads on its gold cover) landed on my doorstep I wondered if I would find out. Its editor, David Carter,...
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