The Great World AUTH-10406550 and not depend on anyone's

and not depend on anyone's explanation or understanding as to what they mean today

the first institution in the Colonies built for the treatment of the insane

When Mel Snow meets Toby Warring in a dusty roadside bar

the more you shape your mind to think in that direction

ISBN13: 9780393003833

The Great World AUTH-10406550 and not depend on anyone'sThe Great World is a remarkable novel of self knowledge and of fall from innocence, of survival and witness. Absorbed by the twentieth century history of Australian life, the novel focuses on the unlikely friendship of two men who meet as POWs of the Japanese during WWII: Digger Keen, and Vic Curran. For both men, war was supposed to be a testing ground of masculine and nationalist virtue. Instead, it becomes an ordeal that lays bare the painful