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Australia's Trail-Blazing First Novelist: John LangCondition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9781923004382 Format: Trade paperback (US) Year: 2023 Publisher: Big Sky Publishing Description: What a life! What a story! Superbly researched and wonderfully crafted Peter FitzSimons 'Writer, journalist, barrister, larrikin' Who was the first Australian novelist? John Lang, born in a Parramatta pub in 1816 with the convict stain upon him, was a singular character. The first native born person to have a novel published, he
Condition: BRAND NEWISBN: 9781923004382
Format: Trade paperback (US)
Year: 2023
Publisher: Big Sky Publishing
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‘What a life! What a story! Superbly researched and wonderfully crafted …’ - Peter FitzSimons
'Writer, journalist, barrister, larrikin'
Who was the first Australian novelist?
John Lang, born in a Parramatta pub in 1816 with the convict ‘stain’ upon him, was a singular character. The first native-born person to have a novel published, he was also a newspaperman, a classical scholar and translator, barrister, celebrity, jailbird … enigma. He was hugely energetic, capable and original, but he also had his demons.
A larrikin polymath who refused to be bound by convention, Lang didn’t just want his allotted portion – he wanted all of it. He got a lot of it, too, but not the chalice of immortality.
Lang was a serial pioneer. In literature, he also wrote the first ‘detective novel’ in English, the first convict-system satire, the first Indian travelogue by an Australian, and he created the template for the bush novel. In journalism, he was the first Australian to launch and run a newspaper overseas. And in law, he was the only barrister to ever defeat the mighty East India Company in an Indian courtroom.
So why have we never heard of him?
This long-overdue biography explores answers to this revealing question as it tracks Lang’s rise from those humble beginnings to fortune and fleeting fame. Author Sean Doyle tells the riveting story of Lang’s remarkable life and times across three continents in the age of Empire, when the modern world was young …
‘What a life! What a story! Superbly researched and wonderfully c
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Absolutely charming. Good story and great artwork!
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Reviewed in the United States on April 29, 2025
★★★★★ 5
Comic Excellence
Format: Paperback
An ALA Best Book for Young Adults, this graphic novel is one of a growing number of high quality comics appropriate for both young adult as well as adult audiences. I particularly like the way the book blends the western and science fiction themes. Daisy Kutter is a fascinating character with more depth than many graphic novels. I look forward to other books in this series.
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Reviewed in the United States on December 4, 2014
★★★★★ 4
really good book
Format: Paperback
bl&wh though is as good as a full color GN. highly reccomended. i think it will be good if he makes a continuation/another book
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Reviewed in the United States on August 16, 2013
★★★★★ 5
The Hipster Spies With His Mystic Eye Something That Begins With--The Old West through a fractured lens
Format: Paperback
Set in a strange, Futurist version of the Wild West, female ex-bandit Daisy Kutter is tricked into one last train robbery. But all is not as it seems.
It has wry humor, an appealing lead character, a real feel for the West, & fun art.
I'll bet my eyeteeth the cartoonist has a shelf full of Lamour Westerns at home.
This belongs in an odd little sub-genre called the Weird West, claimed equally by Westerns, Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror, all set in the latter half of America's 19th Century, & west of the Mississippi.
I wanna see more of Miss Daisy Kutter.
The Hipster gives it a big Thumbs Up!
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Reviewed in the United States on December 30, 2005
★★★★★ 5
Great story, some minor cursing so be careful of ...
Great story, some minor cursing so be careful of that if buying for kids (like I did - sorry honey!)
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Reviewed in the United States on April 23, 2014
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