Additional information
| Weight | 751 g |
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| Dimensions | 230 × 150 × 41 mm |
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| Imprint | Boolarong Press |
| ISBN | 9781925877489 |
| Publication Year | 2020 |
| Subject | Fiction |
Requiem for a Riot – The Battle of Brisbane
$29.99
John Stephenson
November 1942. From battlefront New Guinea, war correspondent Pat Kinnane lands in Brisbane, General MacArthur’s Headquarters, and finds himself in another kind of war. Amid serious Allied tension, with his guide Kay Dalberg, a smart, political young woman, over nine days he liases with operational US military, befriends a desperate Kokoda veteran, edges into a complicated love triangle and is witness to the mysterious death of a soldier. The crucial personal issues of his visit reach their climax on the sultry evening of the 26th, American Thanksgiving Day, when the city’s discords boil over into the fatal street riot known to history as The Battle of Brisbane.
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“A novel complex in narrative and character, profound in insight and passionately written. Yet perhaps the greatest character in it is Brisbane itself, pulsing with Australian and American tensions, racial and sexual.”
Barry Oakley, novelist and playwright
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“A moving story, Requiem For A Riot also shows how the Yanks brought us more than money, randiness and know-how. They brought a big, multicultural, sophisticated world. These invaders were also eye-openers.”
Carl Harrison-Ford, critic