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Originally Posted by montsnmags
I don't mind depressing reads (Primo Levi's If This Is A Man, will always be on my bookshelves, though it's no picnic to read), but I've never read My Brilliant Career. Perhaps you don't mean that particular kind of "depressing" though.  At school, we hit some Aussie poets, but rarely Aussie novelists ( An Imaginary Life by David Malouf, was about the extent, and thankfully I enjoyed it). I'm surprised, looking back, that we didn't get near My Brilliant Career. |
It is interesting - I don't think we got ANY Aussie books to read. Except Mem Fox's Possum Magic, but that was a LONG time ago
The depressing nature of My Brilliant Career? I *wince* haven't read If This Is A Man, so I can't compare. But...