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Issue Details: First known date: 1987-1995... 1987-1995 A Promised Land?
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y separately published work icon The Boys from Bondi Alan Collins , St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1987 Z81644 1987 single work novel young adult Jacob and Solly Kaiser's world suddenly falls apart when they are pitched into the alien world of a Sydney children's home. It is the 1930's, Depression-time, clouded by the rise of Fascism in Europe. Tragedy and comedy intermingle as Jacob steps through the minefield of his teenage years to discover his own place in the world.
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y separately published work icon Going Home Alan Collins , St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1993 Z189107 1993 single work novel young adult Set in Sydney and Palestine in 1947, this novel continues the odyssey of Jacob Kaiser. At odds with post-war Australian society, Jacob yearns for the pioneering life in the emerging Jewish State of Israel. But Ruti, his childhood sweetheart, no longer shares such dreams. Eventually, someone very different joins Jacob in his search for fulfilment.
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y separately published work icon Joshua Alan Collins , St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1995 Z90673 1995 single work novel young adult It is 1967. The Vietnam War is at its height. Joshua and his father are committed pacifists. On Joshua's twentieth birthday a chain of events is set in motion which leads him on a journey for identity. While being pursued by Federal police and Israeli secret agents he finds romance, friendship, and perhaps peace.

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First known date: 1987-1995
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