Summary
We’ll play this silly game, but we’re not going into the army. We’re not going to support this war. We’ll do anything we can to stop it.
Mark David visits a nursing home in search of a place for his elderly mother. There, he encounters the formidable Elizabeth Ryder, mother of his best friend, who he hasn’t seen in forty years. The meeting catapults Mark back to his student days in the late 1960s: to Adelaide during the Vietnam War, when conscription was on everyone’s minds and young…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781742589732 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1742589731 |
| Author: | Doug McEachern |
| Publisher: | UWA Publishing |
| Imprint: | UWAP |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 200 |
| Release Date: | 2 April 2018 |
| Weight: | 500g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm |
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Doug McEachern
Coming out of high school Doug McEachern was enthusiastic to develop as a writer but was led astray by the political urgency of the campaigns against the Vietnam War and conscription. After a lengthy and successful academic career, McEachern finally left university and headed to the south coast of South Australia to become a writer. In Stardust and Golden, his first novel, he returns to the 1960s…
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