Kylie Tennant's "The Battlers"
It's a good few years since I read this book but I happened to be watching again the dvd based on it.
While good enough of itself, it doesn't I think do justice to the book. But it would be a miracle if it could.
It's a monumental book which tells the story of how some people survived or didn't the Great Depression by taking to the road, the track they called it , finding what work they could for a pittance and drawing the unemployment food ration in each town.
Tennant, though unusually for the time as a woman having a university degree, took to the road herself and lived with these people for a time and knew how they lived.
As I recall the book, its characterisations and descriptions are harrowing. The give a picture of our history every Australian should know about , told like this and not in a dry textbook.
The story of Darcy and Snowy is one brilliant work of literature and though it might rip your guts out it's uplifting.
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