The Fringe Dwellers

Nene Gare
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Two sisters, Noonah and Trilby, are young, beautiful - and part aboriginal. The grim alternatives before them are those that most white Australians do not even know about, let alone have to face. The brawling squalor of the camp, the neat ghetto of the Reserve, a bottle of conto and quick love in the sandhills. Noonah is happy to flop back, Trilby has the fire to drive her on. But to what? Nene Gare is as honest as she is sympathetic, and around the two girls she gives a wonderful picture of the warm, crude but sensitive Comeaway family and their friends and 'lations.
Genres: AustraliaFictionHistorical FictionClassicsNovelsIndigenousHistorical20th CenturyComing Of Age
257 Pages

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