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Management number 240036761 Release Date 2026/07/16 List Price US$11.34 Model Number 240036761
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Kangaroo is an account of a visit to New South Wales by an English writer named Richard Lovat Somers and his German wife Harriet in the early 1920s. This appears to be semi-autobiographical, based on a three-month visit to Australia by Lawrence and his wife Frieda, in 1922. The novel includes a chapter ("Nightmare") describing the Somers' experiences in wartime St Ives, Cornwall, vivid descriptions of the Australian landscape, and Richard Somers' sceptical reflections on fringe politics in Sydney. Ultimately, after being initially somewhat drawn to the Digger movement led by Benjamin Cooley - 'Kangaroo' - neither it nor the "great general emotion" of Kangaroo himself appeal to Somers, and in this the novel begins to reflect Lawrence's own experiences during World War I.[1] On the other hand, Somers also rejects the socialism of Willie Struthers, which emphasises "generalised love"

Kangaroo illustrated (Paperback)
Book format Paperback
Fiction/nonfiction Fiction
Genre Literature & Fiction
Publication date January, 2021
Pages 498
Edition Standard Edition
Publisher Independently published
Original languages English
Language English
Character Richard Lovat Somers, Harriet, Benjamin Cooley, Willie Struthers
Assembled product height 1.5 in
Assembled product weight 1 lb
Bisac subject heading Fiction

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