Halfway to Anywhere (novel)

Halfway to Anywhere

Author	Norman Lindsay
Published	Sydney: 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.

References

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

Sources

• Sutherland, J. (1996). "Lindsay, Norman". In Stringer, J. (ed.). The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Literature in English. Oxford University Press.
• Wilde, W.; Hooton, J.; Andrews, B. (1994). "Saturdee". The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press.

Further reading

• "New Fiction. Halfway to Anywhere". The Sydney Morning Herald . 27 December 1947. p. 8.
• "Remember your boyhood?". The Daily Telegraph . 27 December 1947. p. 14.
• "Mr Lindsay and Others". The Herald . 3 January 1948.
• "Norman Lindsay True to Form". The Mercury . 10 January 1948. p. 6.