Bronco Ride. "A Lot of Croc: An Urban Bush Legend" by Kate Finlayson. [review]
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2004-05
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Varga, Susan
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Australian Book Review
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This book’s strengths and weaknesses are on a big scale, and that alone makes Finlayson a writer worth watching. The portrait of the Territory — an utterly different universe from the Australia most of us know — is in-your-face vital and rich, if sometimes undisciplined. This is the best contemporary account of life in north-west Australia that I have read. It can be funny, too, with a frank humour that encompasses being ‘sung’ for love by an ugly old Aboriginal bloke, a natty account of an Alice Springs tattoo parlour, and some unlikely sex.
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Book review, Australian fiction
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Varga, Susan 2004. Bronco Ride. Review of "A Lot of Croc: An Urban Bush Legend" by Kate Finlayson. 'Australian Book Review', No 261, May, 42.