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Fredy Neptune : a novel in verse / Les Murray.
LIBRA Special PR9619.3.M83 F74 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Murray, Les A., 1938-2019.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World War, 1914-1918--Australia--Poetry.
- World War, 1914-1918.
- Strong men--Australia--Poetry.
- Strong men.
- Soldiers--Australia--Poetry.
- Soldiers.
- Germans--Australia--Poetry.
- Germans.
- Leprosy--Patients--Australia--Poetry.
- Leprosy.
- Leprosy--Patients.
- Australia.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 255 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, [2000]
- Summary:
- A novel in verse on the adventures of a German-Australian sailor early this century, eg. "The first I heard that the War had really come / was a black-faced officer with a target and a church / on his cap, directing sailors to rip / our decks up, for the coal below. / I turned out of my hammock / to fight them--and our bos'un chucked me a shovel: / We're coaling that battlecruiser. / There! The English are after her!" By an Australian writer.
- Contents:
- Book 1 The Middle Sea 1
- Book 2 Barking at the Thunder 47
- Book 3 Prop Sabres 113
- Book 4 The Police Revolution 171
- Book 5 Lazarus Unstuck 213.
- ISBN:
- 0374526761
- 9780374526764
- OCLC:
- 45006014
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