AUSTRALIAN "SWAGGERS"
"The Battlers," Kylie Tennant's newest book, has been kindly received in Great Britain: parallels have . been drawn between it and Steiner's '.'Grapes of Wrath": it is generally admitted that-Miss Tennant has given the British public an insight into a section of Australian life of which most people know nothing. The story is the tale of some of those nomads who a few years ago existed on the dole, eked put by whatever they could get from occasional odd jobs. Every dole-day they call at the police station pf the nearest dole town for their rations, and then take to the road again. There is a great gulf fixed between them and the dwellers in homes: seldom does ' a nomad leave the road for long.'Strange characters are to be found among them; the outcasts of industrial and agricultural life. Miss Tennant handles the whole subject in a humorous but sympathetic way; she shows little of the sordidness and grimness that mark th-j life of the tramp in older countries.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 77, 27 September 1941, Page 15
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