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Country
  
Australia

Publisher
  
Collins, England

Media type
  
Print

Originally published
  
1936

Page count
  
319

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Language
  
English

Publication date
  
1936

Pages
  
319

Author
  
Genre
  
Novel

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Return to Coolami (1936) is a novel by Australian author Eleanor Dark. It won the ALS Gold Medal for Best Novel in 1936.

Contents

Plot summary

The novel relates the story of Bret Maclean who has travelled to Sydney to bring his young wife to his station home. On the two days' journey the young coupe are accompanied by her parents. The novel is set during this journey and lays out the life's story of each of the four travellers.

Reviews

A reviewer in The Courier-Mail stated: "The author has a delicacy of touch that such a situation requires, and her method of explaining the whole lives of the four travellers reminds one somewhat of Dorothy Richardson's 'stream of con sciousness' in the Miriam Henderson books, or of Norah James (in Jealousy). But there is nothing of Imitation in Eleanor Dark, she is superbly herself and most definitely an author to watch."

A reviewer in The Truth found that the novel owed a little too much to cinematic technique: "The screen came into its own when it discovered its power thus to mingle the past and present; but in a story closer attention is demanded to follow the changes than the average reader will give."

Awards and nominations

  • 1936 winner ALS Gold Medal
  • References

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