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BILLAROOBY Jim Anderson ~ PB 1990 Australian Fiction
$6.95
Softcover, retired library copy with reinforced spine edge, small white spine sticker, cancelled barcode, stamps and a card pocket, lightly toned pages are otherwise unmarked.
397 pages, Grafton Books, 1990. The photograph forms part of the description. ISBN-10: 0586205896
The year is 1942; far away, World War II rages. Lindsay Armstrong’s family has come to Billarooby to farm in this remote Australian backland. Lindsay, eleven years old, sensitive, and imaginative, discovers a strange man lurking near the family’s ramshackle house and chases him. The man turns out to be an escaped Japanese prisoner-of-war who had been housed in a nearby camp. Lindsay, horrified, witnesses the man’s capture and sadistic punishment, and this spectacle triggers in him dim but foreboding snatches of memory - of a murder in his family. The days grow hotter and dryer; drought conditions intensify and crops die in the fields. Billarooby becomes a seething cauldron of fear, racism, and rage. In the Armstrong family, too, tensions heat to a murderous tempo. This will be the year Lindsay discovers who he is.
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397 pages, Grafton Books, 1990. The photograph forms part of the description. ISBN-10: 0586205896
The year is 1942; far away, World War II rages. Lindsay Armstrong’s family has come to Billarooby to farm in this remote Australian backland. Lindsay, eleven years old, sensitive, and imaginative, discovers a strange man lurking near the family’s ramshackle house and chases him. The man turns out to be an escaped Japanese prisoner-of-war who had been housed in a nearby camp. Lindsay, horrified, witnesses the man’s capture and sadistic punishment, and this spectacle triggers in him dim but foreboding snatches of memory - of a murder in his family. The days grow hotter and dryer; drought conditions intensify and crops die in the fields. Billarooby becomes a seething cauldron of fear, racism, and rage. In the Armstrong family, too, tensions heat to a murderous tempo. This will be the year Lindsay discovers who he is.
All items have been cleaned with a disinfectant solution for your protection. Can be picked up from HILLARYS (any time) OR NOLLAMARA (school hours), or will post. To see all my current listings, click on my name: Riverdancer.
- Date Listed:25/09/2019
- Last Edited:23/08/2021
- Condition:Used
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