Author: Shute, Nevil (1899-1960)
Title: The far country
Description: London : Book Club 1953. Book club edition. Good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Boards dust-toned. Spine bands and panel edges slightly bumped and rubbed as with age. Internally. bright and clean. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: v. 239 pages; 19 cm. Subjects: Family -- fiction. Romance fiction. Rural fiction. Summary: The novel begins on a sheep station in rural Victoria. Australia. It is 1950. Middle-aged Jack and Jane Dorman are enjoying wealth for the first time in their lives because the price of wool is so high. After 30 years in Australia. Jane Dorman has kept in touch with one relative ‘back home’ in England. her elderly Aunt Ethel. This aunt dies of malnutrition in austerity England because her Indian pension ceases. The shortages in England are contrasted with the wealth and plenty in Australia. Ethel’s grand-daughter. Jennifer. visits the Dormans in Australia. She meets Carl Zlinter. a Czechoslovakian displaced person who is working in logging for two years as payment for his passage to the country as a ‘New Australian’. The romance between them and his efforts to build a new life form the rest of the novel.

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