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The Battlers Paperback – 1 March 2013

by Kylie Tennant (Author)
4.3 out of 5 stars 14
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The award-winning tale of the motley crowd of travelling 'battlers'.
the flowers flared up from the ground unconquerable. the unrepentant gaiety of the weed, the burning blues and crimsons, set the hills glowing. 'It's a plant that's struck it lucky,' the Stray said thoughtfully. 'It hasn't got no right, but it's there.' the Battlers is the story of Snow, a drifter and wanderer, the waiflike Dancy the Stray, from the slums of Sydney, and the other outcasts who accompany them as they travel the country roads looking for work. Like the weed Patterson's Curse, they 'haven't got no right', but they are there. Based on her own experiences of life on the roads in the 1930s, tennant tells the story of the motley crowd of travellers with compassion and humour. First published in 1941, the Battlers was awarded the Gold Medal of the Australian Literature Society and shared the S. H. Prior Memorial Prize. More than seventy years later, the book's message of survival against the odds is as relevant today as it was then.
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  1. Print length
    414 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    HarperCollins AU
  4. Publication date
    1 March 2013
  5. Dimensions
    13 x 2.5 x 20.1 cm
  6. ISBN-10
    0732297036
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0732297039
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About the Author

Kylie Tennant was born in Manly, NSW, in 1912. A self-described radical always drawn to the unemployed, she immersed herself in the lives of her characters, and during the 1930s travelled the road with groups of battlers. Kylie Tennant wrote a number of fiction and non-fiction works.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ HarperCollins AU (1 March 2013)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 414 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0732297036
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0732297039
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 13 x 2.5 x 20.1 cm
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5.0 out of 5 stars Lost history
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4.0 out of 5 stars Dated but still quite readable
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Some of the problems depicted are still current today.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Kylie Tennant - after all these years!
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This is an iconic Aussie tale of a particular era in our nation's history; told with great sympathies & insights! A history lesson of great quality and made, in 2014, a fantastic read!!
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