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Foal's bread Gillian Mears.

By: Publication details: Crows Nest, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 2011.Description: 361 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781742376295 (pbk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • A823.4 23
Awards:
  • Winner of the 2012 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Fiction, the 2012 Age Book of the Year Award for Fiction, 2012 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Fiction.
Summary: Set in hardscrabble farming country and around the country show high-jumping circuit that prevailed in rural New South Wales prior to the Second World War, Foal's Bread tells the story of two generations of the Nancarrow family and their fortunes as dictated by the vicissitudes of the land.
List(s) this item appears in: Awarded General Fiction
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Item type Home library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode Item reserves
Book Melbourne Athenaeum Library Fiction MEA Available 052696
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Set in hardscrabble farming country and around the country show high-jumping circuit that prevailed in rural New South Wales prior to the Second World War, Foal's Bread tells the story of two generations of the Nancarrow family and their fortunes as dictated by the vicissitudes of the land.

Winner of the 2012 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Fiction, the 2012 Age Book of the Year Award for Fiction, 2012 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Fiction.

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