Poor Fellow My Country
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| Author | Xavier Herbert |
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| Country | Australia |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Novel |
| Publisher | Collins (Australia) |
Publication date | 1975 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 1463 |
| ISBN | 0-00-616029-8 |
| OCLC | 27490485 |
Poor Fellow My Country is a Miles Franklin Award-winning novel by Australian author Xavier Herbert. At 1,463 pages, it is the longest Australian work of fiction ever written.[1] Primarily, it is the story of Jeremy Delacy and his illegitimate grandson Prindy in the years leading up to World War II. The novel's subject matter includes Aboriginal affairs and Australian patriotism and Australian nationalism, issues also dealt with in Herbert's 1938 novel Capricornia.
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