Spirit of Progress [electronic resource]
Steven Carroll2011
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The thing that makes you, it never goes. A sleek high-speed train glides
silently through the French countryside, bearing Michael, an Australian writer,
and his travelling world of memory and speculation. Melbourne, 1946, calls to
him: the pressure cooker of the city during World War II has produced a small
creative miracle, and at this pivotal moment the lives of his newly married
parents, a group of restless artists, a proud old woman with a tent for a home,
a journalist, a gallery owner, a farmer and a factory developer irrevocably
intersect. And all the while the Spirit of Progress, the locomotive of the new
age, roars through their lives like time's arrow, pointing to the future and the
post-war world only some of them will enter. 'If Graham Greene can have the
phrase 'Greene-land' used to celebrate his fictional world, I hope Steven
Carroll gets recognition for the Australia he records. Perhaps it should be
called 'Carroll-land' Bookseller + Publisher
Main title:
Spirit of Progress [electronic resource] / Steven Carroll
Author:
Steven Carroll, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : 4th Estate, 2011
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file) (368 pages)
Audience:
General/trade
System details:
Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9780730497851
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
436420
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