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In the author note to the 1999 edition of Highways to a War, Koch describes the two novels as a dyptich entitled Beware of the Past, the first line of a poem by James McAuley used as an epigraph to the later novel.
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Highways to a War
New York (City)
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Viking
,
1995
Z456830
1995
single work
novel
(taught in 1 units)
'When Mike Langford, a war photographer with a reputation for unusual risk-taking, disappears inside Cambodia, he becomes a mythic figure in the minds of his friends. The search for him which is at the heart of this novel explores the personal highways that led him to war, and to his ultimate fate.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
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Out of Ireland
Sydney
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Doubleday
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1999
Z513277
1999
single work
novel
'A leader of the Young Ireland rebellion of 1848, Robert Devereaux is an Irish gentleman who is prepared to hazard a life of privilege in the fight for his country's freedom. transported to Van Diemen's land as a political prisoner, he enters a life that greatly changes him, falling in love with a young Irish convict woman. Through Kathleen O'Rahilly he comes to know the people he's long romanticised; but his cause, and the life he has lost, will not let him go.'
Source: Publisher's blurb (HarperCollins 2013 ed.)
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- y Ancestral Narratives: Irish-Australian Identities in History and Fiction Saarbrucken : VDM Verlag , 2008-2009 Z1664583 2008-2009 single work criticism
- y Ancestral Narratives: Irish-Australian Identities in History and Fiction Saarbrucken : VDM Verlag , 2008-2009 Z1664583 2008-2009 single work criticism