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Henry goes bush
Marshall, Wayne2026
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In 1892, New South Wales' most promising writer and least promising teetotaller, Henry Lawson, is banished to Bourke to 'find the real bush'. The goal: sober up, gather fresh material, and stop being such a disappointment. But what Australia's favourite literary son discovers in the river town is less a glorious national frontier than a collective nervous breakdown. History records this as the trip that defined his career. Wayne Marshall records it as a surrealist action movie where Lawson must outrun his own myth and a gunslinger known as The Rider, aka Banjo - a poet significantly better at being a legend than Henry is.
Main title:
Henry goes bush / Wayne Marshall.
Author:
Marshall, Wayne, author
Work:
Imprint:
Sydney, New South Wales : Picador, Pan Macmillan Australia, 2026.©2026
Collation:
325 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781761770142 (paperback)
Dewey class:
A823.4
Language:
English
Subject:
Lawson, Henry, 1867-1922 -- FictionPaterson, A. B. (Andrew Barton), 1864-1941 -- FictionAuthors, Australian -- FictionPoets, Australian -- FictionCountry life -- Australia -- FictionAustralian fictionNew South Wales -- History -- 19th century -- FictionBiographical fictionHistorical fictionMagic realist fiction
BRN:
496857