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Kylie Tennant

FIRST AMERICAN PUBLICATION OF AN AUSTRALIAN CLASSIC "Far and away the finest novel of modern life in an Australian city that has been published." The Adelaide Advertiser The inner city suburb of Foveaux is known as a place of illrepute its a bit of an embarrassment to the good people of Sydney. From the harbour shore up a steep hill in a maze of tiny streets, the Foveaux houses range from terrible dingy slumdwellings with searing drains at the foot of the hill to much more substantial semirespectable abodes at the top. Interspersed between all this teeming residential activity are the smoky small factories and dubious shop concerns where the locals scrape out a precarious living, and the pubs which give them succour. But take a closer look, and individuals begin to come into focus out of the murk Jimmy Rolfe, a bit of a romantic wanderer, and a chancer, who always ends up back in Foveaux Linnie Montague, who has had to be tough to survive, not knowing till shes nearly broken that her own rejection of warmth harmed her far more than anyone else ever could Bramley Cornish, a believer in better things who is thwarted by his wish for the quiet life, and by love their mothers, Mrs Montague and Mrs Cornish, about as different as could be, who are rival landladies with a constantly changing populace of needy boarders Honest John Hutchison, local bigwig and occasional mayor, whose hunger for cash and influence, and willingness to cut corners, get him into very hot water Old Mr... | Kylie Tennant Foveaux Paperback Book