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Hypocrisy in Australia

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June 1985, no. 71

Hypocrisy in Australia

by
June 1985, no. 71

Edwin Wilson’s first novel, Liberty, Egality, Fraternity! is described by its dust jacket as being about

work, life, love; friendship, sex, marriage, birth, death, religion, and the nature of freedom ’ and ‘individual liberty’, set against Australian society in the fifties and sixties.

None of which I can quibble with, nor as the jacket goes on to say, the predictability of this theme for a first novel. For alas, Liberty, Egality, Fraternity! is yawningly predictable, far too long and strives after a symbolic significance which is never achieved.

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