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MOST GREAT LOVERS IF THEY LIVED TODAY WOULD BE CONSIDERED JUVENILE DELINQUENTS. AND SO IT IS WITH BROWNIE AND LOLA, TWO DISPLACED TEENAGERS WHO FIND THEIR HOMES IN EACH OTHER. BUT IN BRISBANE IN THE FIFTIES, THE AGE OF PONY TAILS, ROCK N ROLL AND BACKSTREET ABORTIONS, THOSE WHO GO THEIR OWN WAY ARE NOT REBELS BUT DELINQUENTS. IN THE EYES OF THE WORLD - THAT IS, OF THEIR MOTHERS, WELFARE AND THE COPS - THEY ARE UNPREPARED FOR ADULT RESPONSIBILITIES. DESPITE OUTSIDERS' ATTEMPTS TO SEPARATE THEM, THEY PROVE THEMSELVES CAPABLE OF SURVIVING IN A WORLD TO WHICH THEY GIVE A LOVE AND UNDERSTANDING THAT IS SELDOM RETURNED. 14/08/89 PROD LAUNCH 16/8/89 AGREED--25000X21.2X$2.99(15000X26P). SUB-10000. 'A' FORMAT. 208PP. OFFSET AUST. EDN. NEW COVER. MAX BULK.
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DEIRDRE CASH (writing as Criena Rohan) was born in Melbourne in 1924. Her first novel, The Delinquents, was written when the author was hospitalized for four months with suspected tuberculosis. The novel was published in London in 1962, to acclaim. It was made into a cult film, starring Kylie Minogue, in 1989.
Eventually diagnosed with cancer, Cash wrote her second novel, Down by the Dockside (1963), while in and out of hospital. Deirdre Cash died in Melbourne in 1963, aged thirty-eight.
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Paperback. 188 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Penguin, Australia, 1989. Reprint. *** CONDITION: This book is in very good condition. More specifically: Covers have light creasing. Edges of covers have superficial wear. Spine is uncreased. . Pages are lightly tanned. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: MOST GREAT LOVERS IF THEY LIVED TODAY WOULD BE CONSIDERED JUVENILE DELINQUENTS. AND SO IT IS WITH BROWNIE AND LOLA, TWO DISPLACED TEENAGERS WHO FIND THEIR HOMES IN EACH OTHER. BUT IN BRISBANE IN THE FIFTIES, THE AGE OF PONY TAILS, ROCK N ROLL AND BACKSTREET ABORTIONS, THOSE WHO GO THEIR OWN WAY ARE NOT REBELS BUT DELINQUENTS. IN THE EYES OF THE WORLD - THAT IS, OF THEIR MOTHERS, WELFARE AND THE COPS - THEY ARE UNPREPARED FOR ADULT RESPONSIBILITIES. DESPITE OUTSIDERS' ATTEMPTS TO SEPARATE THEM, THEY PROVE THEMSELVES CAPABLE OF SURVIVING IN A WORLD TO WHICH THEY GIVE A LOVE AND UNDERSTANDING THAT IS SELDOM RETURNED. 14/08/89 PROD LAUNCH 16/8/89 AGREED--25000X21.2X$2.99(15000X26P). SUB-10000. 'A' FORMAT. 208PP. OFFSET AUST. EDN. NEW COVER. MAX BULK. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Movie / TV Tie-in; ISBN: 0140119191. ISBN/EAN: 9780140119190. Inventory No: 23090015. Seller Inventory # 23090015