Title Foal's bread / Gillian Mears

Published Crows Nest, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 2011

Copies

Location	Call no.	Vol.	Availability
MELB	827.03 M4838 A6/Fo		AVAILABLE

Description 361 pages ; 24 cm regular print 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 Analysis Australian Australian fiction Notes Library's N copy is signed by the author. ANL Australian Literature Society Gold Medal, 2012 Colin Roderick Award, 2011 Prime Minister's Literary Awards: Fiction, 2012 Subject Australian fiction -- 21st century. Australian fiction. Country life -- Fiction. Country life -- Australia -- New South Wales -- Fiction. Country life -- Australia -- New South Wales. Families -- Fiction. Families -- Australia -- New South Wales -- Fiction. Horses -- Fiction. Jumping (Horsemanship) -- Australia -- Fiction. Nineteen thirties -- Fiction. Show jumping -- Fiction. SUBJECT New South Wales http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79033009 -- Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001562 Genre/Form Domestic fiction. Fiction. LC no. 2011514687 ISBN 1742376290 (paperback) 9781742376295 (paperback)

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