Halfway to Anywhere (novel)

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Halfway to Anywhere
Author Norman Lindsay
PublishedSydney: Angus & Robertson, 1947

Halfway to Anywhere is a 1947 novel written and illustrated by Norman Lindsay. It is a humorous novel dealing with Australian adolescents. It the final part of a trilogy which began with Redheap and was continued in Saturdee. [1] According to The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Literature in English, "these novels, with their sexually vigorous young protagonists, comically depict small town life." [2] The novel was adapted for the screen in 1972.

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  1. Wilde; Hooton; Andrews 1994.
  2. Sutherland 1996.

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