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Illustrator Mike Golding Language Australian English Originally published 1998 Page count 265 Publisher Duffy & Snellgrove | 4.1/5 Goodreads Cover artist Alex Snellgrove Publication date 1998 Pages 265 Genre Poema | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Fredy Neptune: A Novel in Verse (1998) is a novel written in verse by the Australian poet Les Murray.
Contents
Told in eight-line stanzas, Fredy Neptune describes the experiences of Fred Boettcher, an Australian of German parentage, during the years between the world wars. The work was described by the British poet Ruth Padel as "a haunting, loving, fiercely democratic epic by a master poet." It won the 1998 Queensland Premier's Literary Awards Fiction Book Award.
Structure
The work is divided into five sections:
References
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