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y separately published work icon Shearers' Motel single work   prose   autobiography   travel  
  • Author:agent Roger McDonald http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/mcdonald-roger
Issue Details: First known date: 1992... 1992 Shearers' Motel
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form y separately published work icon Naked : Cross Turning Over Stu Sutcliffe , ( dir. Robert Klenner ) Australia : Jan Chapman Productions Australian Broadcasting Corporation , 1995 Z817523 1995 single work film/TV

Hughie, a writer in his late forties, is married with three children and living in the country. Through an uncontrollable desire to step outside himself, to recapture the naturalness of feeling of his childhood, and to seek renewal, Hughie leaves his family for the outback. What began as a tentative adventure has the power to change him in ways that are unforeseen, profound, and ultimately irrevocable.

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  • Dedication: We wish we were leaving here. we wish we were packing up and going over to the next shed. And we're thinking, Why? It's the same as this one. Bound to be. But we still want to go. Dedicated with affection and respect to hemi and rewi and the teams i worked for in 1989 and 1990.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Chippendale, Inner Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales,: Picador , 1992 .
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      Extent: 306p.
      Description: illus., port.
      Reprinted: 1992 , 1993 Twice , 1994
      ISBN: 0330273515
    • Milsons Point, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Vintage Australia , 2001 .
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      Extent: 306p.
      ISBN: 1740510518

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y separately published work icon Postcolonial Heritage and Settler Well-Being : The Historical Fictions of Roger McDonald Christopher Lee , Amherst : Cambria Press , 2018 15395794 2018 multi chapter work criticism

'The Australian writer Roger McDonald is the author of ten novels, two novelisations from and for film scripts, two television scripts, one semi-fictionalised memoir, a collection of essays, and two volumes of poetry. His publication record spans half a century from the late 1960s up until the late teens with his tenth novel, A Sea Chase, published in 2017. His books have achieved a significant record in the Australian list of literary awards and he has gone close to breaking into the major international prizes that distinguish the transnational careers of other contemporary Australian writers such as Thomas Keneally, Peter Carey, David Malouf, and, more recently, Kate Grenville. McDonald’s work has been published in London and New York as well as in the key metropolitan markets of his native Australia, and it has been translated into Spanish, German, and Swedish. 1915, his first novel, was adapted into an Australian Broadcasting Commission television series, which was shown on Australian screens in the early 1980s and distributed internationally.

'McDonald writes about ordinary characters whose lives have often been overtaken by historical forces they do not understand and cannot control. These men and women are commonly defined by whom they know and what they do rather than through the display of extraordinary qualities of mind, sensibility, or virtue. McDonald often situates his characters’ within foundational Australian historical periods such as the convict period, frontier settlement, the development of the pastoral industry, the Great War, the Golden Age of Aviation, and the Second World War and its aftermath. This later post-war period saw the transformation of Anglo-Celtic Australia by waves of initially southern and eastern European migration, followed by Asian and indeed wider international migration. The emerging multicultural character of the country coincided with the decline of rural Australia and the pastoral industry as the preferred locations for representative Australian types and values. These events or periods are well entrenched within the public memory of a White Australia and that enables McDonald to explore his characters’ search for purpose and fulfillment within the mythological registers of his nation’s postcolonial history.

'This study focuses on the books (five novels and the fictionalised memoir) in which McDonald has decided to situate his characters’ search for purpose and well-being within the mythological registers of colonial history. It explores McDonald’s investments in story and his developments in idiom and literary form, as endeavors to engage a wider public in the problem of postcolonial settlement. The common narrative problem is the elusiveness of a condition of Being that is well settled in the web of social, cultural, and environmental connections that are necessary for dwelling. McDonald pursues the possibilities for a wider more satisfying sense of human connection but his representations of the common man under the conditions of postcolonial modernity never allow that to come easily.'

Source: Abstract.

Life Can Be Crook for a Bush Cook Naomi Millett , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: The West Australian , 23 June 2001; (p. 8)

— Review of Shearers' Motel Roger McDonald , 1992 single work prose autobiography
A Reading of Roger McDonald Katharine England , 1994 single work review
— Appears in: Voices , Winter vol. 4 no. 2 1994; (p. 111-117)

— Review of Shearers' Motel Roger McDonald , 1992 single work prose autobiography ; Rough Wallaby Roger McDonald , 1989 single work novel ; Water Man Roger McDonald , 1993 single work novel ; 1915 : A Novel Roger McDonald , 1979 single work novel ; Slipstream Roger McDonald , 1982 single work novel
Travels in the Outback with Roger and Jack Robert Zeller , 1994 single work review
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 8 no. 1 1994; (p. 80)

— Review of Shearers' Motel Roger McDonald , 1992 single work prose autobiography ; Over Forty in Broken Hill : Unusual Encounters Outback & Beyond Jack Hodgins , 1992 single work non-fiction
`Ingenious' Book Wins a Banjo Ian Hicks , 1993 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 26 June 1993; (p. 6)
His Hands Move Quick Geoffrey Dutton , 1992 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , October no. 145 1992; (p. 19-20)

— Review of Shearers' Motel Roger McDonald , 1992 single work prose autobiography
Journey Without a Cause John Hooker , 1992 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 26-27 December 1992; (p. rev 5)

— Review of Shearers' Motel Roger McDonald , 1992 single work prose autobiography
Travels in the Outback with Roger and Jack Robert Zeller , 1994 single work review
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 8 no. 1 1994; (p. 80)

— Review of Shearers' Motel Roger McDonald , 1992 single work prose autobiography ; Over Forty in Broken Hill : Unusual Encounters Outback & Beyond Jack Hodgins , 1992 single work non-fiction
A Reading of Roger McDonald Katharine England , 1994 single work review
— Appears in: Voices , Winter vol. 4 no. 2 1994; (p. 111-117)

— Review of Shearers' Motel Roger McDonald , 1992 single work prose autobiography ; Rough Wallaby Roger McDonald , 1989 single work novel ; Water Man Roger McDonald , 1993 single work novel ; 1915 : A Novel Roger McDonald , 1979 single work novel ; Slipstream Roger McDonald , 1982 single work novel
Life Can Be Crook for a Bush Cook Naomi Millett , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: The West Australian , 23 June 2001; (p. 8)

— Review of Shearers' Motel Roger McDonald , 1992 single work prose autobiography
Shearer Killed Off After the Fact 1993 single work column
— Appears in: The West Australian , 26 May 1993; (p. 43)
Judges of the Miles Franklin Literary Award were uncertain whether this novel was fact or fiction.
`Ingenious' Book Wins a Banjo Ian Hicks , 1993 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 26 June 1993; (p. 6)
A Language that is Shaped by the Tablelands Pollyanna Sutton , 1993 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 18 September 1993; (p. C11)
Touching a Mythological Chord Roger McDonald , 1993 single work criticism biography
— Appears in: Newswrite : The Newsletter of the New South Wales Writers' Centre , July no. 18 1993; (p. 3)
The Writer Who 'Found' Himself in the Bush Candida Baker , 1992 single work criticism biography
— Appears in: The Age , 11 November 1992; (p. 4)
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