Wake in fright

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Kenneth Cook: Wake in fright (1967, Penguin Books)

143 pages

English language

Published Nov. 19, 1967 by Penguin Books.

ISBN:
978-0-14-026052-6
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OCLC Number:
222043950

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"New to The Yabba?"

It was the inevitable question asked of a stranger to the Australian outback town of Bundanyabba. Then would follow round after round of drinks and a recital of The Yabba's virtues. You could rob your host, sleep with his wife or rape his daughters and Bundanyabba would welcome you. But refuse a drink or despise The Yabba and you were an outcast.

John Grant came from Sydney. He was serving his mandatory time as a school-teacher in the outback. Bundanyabba was the essence of what he hated most about the region: its meaningless generosity and utter shallowness; its stifling hospitality and complete callousness; its scorching, relentless, horrible heat. And yet John, who was on his way to see his girl in Sydney, was stuck there — flat broke, dependent on these friendly. loathsome people. He gambled with them, drank with them, shot with them. …

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