Poor Fellow My Country
10 best books like Poor Fellow My Country (Xavier Herbert): Oscar and Lucinda, My Brilliant Career, Carpentaria, Voss, The Moviegoer, We of the Never Never, The First Circle, Redeployment, Rilke: Poems, Mama Lola: A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn (Comparative Studies in Religion and Society)
| Author | Peter Carey |
| ISBN | 0702229784 |
Peter Carey's Booker Prize winning novel imagines Australia's youth, before its dynamic passions became dangerous habits. It is also a startling and unusual love story.
Oscar is a young English clergyman who has broken with his past and developed a disturbing talent for gambling. A country...
| Author | Miles Franklin |
| ISBN | 1600963781 |
"My Brilliant Career" is the story of Sybylla, a headstrong young girl growing up in early 20th century Australia. Sybylla rejects the opportunity to marry a wealthy young man in order to maintain her independence. As a consequence she must take a job as a governess to a local family to which her father...
| Author | Alexis Wright |
| ISBN | 1920882176 |
Hailed as a "literary sensation" by The New York Times Book Review, Carpentaria is the luminous award-winning novel by Australian Aboriginal writer and activist Alexis Wright.
Alexis Wright employs mysticism, stark reality, and pointed imagination to re-create the land and the Aboriginal...
| Author | Patrick White |
| ISBN | 0099324717 |
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ROBERT MACFARLANE
Set in nineteenth-century Australia, Voss is the story of the secret passion between an explorer and a naïve young woman. Although they have met only on a few occasions, Voss and Laura are joined by overwhelming, obsessive feelings for each other....
| Author | Walker Percy |
| ISBN | 0375701966 |
The dazzling novel that established Walker Percy as one of the major voices in Southern literature is now available for the first time in Vintage paperback. The Moviegoer is Binx Bolling, a young New Orleans stockbroker who surveys the world with the detached gaze of a Bourbon Street dandy even as he...
| Author | Jeannie Gunn |
| ISBN | 1406500232 |
I had already read this book many years ago but somehow I had forgotten how sad the ending is! To have so much for just fourteen months and then have to return to Melbourne alone to pick up the pieces of her former life. It must have been really hard.
Anyway, I enjoyed this memoir from 1902, when Australia...
| Author | Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn |
| ISBN | 0810115905 |
Set in Moscow during a three-day period in December 1949, 'The First Circle' is the story of the prisoner Gleb Nerzhin, a brilliant mathematician.
At the age of thirty-one, Nerzhin has survived the war years on the German front and the postwar years in a succession of Russian prisons and labor...
| Author | Phil Klay |
| ISBN | 1594204993 |
Phil Klay's Redeployment takes readers to the frontlines of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, asking us to understand what happened there, and what happened to the soldiers who returned. Interwoven with themes of brutality and faith, guilt and fear, helplessness and survival, the characters in these...
I fell in love with Rilke's poetry from quotes I found here and there. Now, after reading this collection, I fell in love with him fully and completely. Even though I wasn't really interested in all the subjects he talks about in his poems, I still found verses that touched me deeply - and I found that, taken...
Mama Lola: A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn (Comparative Studies in Religion and Society)
| Author | Karen McCarthy Brown |
| ISBN | 0520224752 |
Karen McCarthy Brown's classic book shatters stereotypes of Vodou by offering an intimate portrait of African-based religion in everyday life. She explores the importance of women's religious practices along with related themes of family and of social change. Weaving several of her own voices--analytic,...
| Author | Ruth Park |
| ISBN | 0312000545 |
A truly Australian novel which depicts generational poverty in such a way that the reader is confronted with the reality of what poverty truly means.
I found it easy to picture my grandmother living during this time in Australian history. The dirt and pollution from the coal factories, the dull...
