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The Resource Spirit of Progress

Spirit of Progress

Label
Spirit of Progress
Title
Spirit of Progress
Creator
Subject
Summary
The thing that makes you, it never goes. A sleek high-speed train glides silently through the French countryside, bearing Michael, an Australian writer, and his travelling world of memory and speculation. Melbourne, 1946, calls to him: the pressure cooker of the city during World War II has produced a small creative miracle, and at this pivotal moment the lives of his newly married parents, a group of restless artists, a proud old woman with a tent for a home, a journalist, a gallery owner, a farmer and a factory developer irrevocably intersect. And all the while the Spirit of Progress, the locomotive of the new age, roars through their lives like time's arrow, pointing to the future and the post-war world only some of them will enter. 'If Graham Greene can have the phrase 'Greene-land' used to celebrate his fictional world, I hope Steven Carroll gets recognition for the Australia he records. Perhaps it should be called 'Carroll-land' Bookseller + Publisher
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Steven Carroll
Nature of contents
dictionaries
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Fiction / General
Label
Spirit of Progress
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Publication
Control code
ODILO:034300006855
Dimensions
4 3/4 in. or 12 cm.
Form of item
electronic
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True
Isbn
9780730497851
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True
Specific material designation
optical disk
Label
Spirit of Progress
Publication
Control code
ODILO:034300006855
Dimensions
4 3/4 in. or 12 cm.
Form of item
electronic
http://library.link/vocab/inputERC
True
Isbn
9780730497851
http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
True
Specific material designation
optical disk

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