The Obsession of Oscar Oswald
Pascoe Publishing, $5.95 pb, 214 pp
History
In the Future
by Lynette McGuarr •
In Carlton the graffiti’s already been around for months: ‘Oscar Oswald is right ... 1984’. Now even if you’ve never heard of Oscar Oswald you’ll know one thing about him and that is that he's not George Orwell ‘If Oscar Oswald is right in 1984,’ the graffiti might easily be saying, ‘then George Orwell must have had it all terribly wrong in 1949’.
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