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Cargando... The Delinquents (Text Classics) (1962 original; edición 2015)por Criena Rohan (Autor), Nick Earls (Introducción)
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HTML: Brownie and Lola are young and in love. But the odds - not to mention their mothers, the cops, welfare officers and the stifling conventions of 1950s Brisbane - are against them. When they are forced to face adult responsibilities, will they rise to the challenge, or fall apart? The Delinquents, Criena Rohan's classic novel of rock and roll, youthful rebellion and big dreams, is a love story for the ages. Deirdre Cash, who published under the pseudonym Criena Rohan, was born in 1924 in Melbourne. She grew up in South Australian and Melbourne, and went on to attend the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music. She married twice, had two children and worked variously as a singer and ballroom-dancing teacher. Ill-health inspired her to pursue her love of writing in the late 1950s. She published her first novel, The Delinquents in 1962. It was followed by Down by the Dockside in 1963. Cash passed away from cancer that same year at the age of thirty-eight. 'A back-street Tristan and Isolde.' Daily Mail, 1962 .No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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I never saw the film and cannot for the life of me imagine Neighbours-era Kylie Minogue as the sassy, sharp as a tack and, possibly most importantly Eurasian Lola. Ludicrous! And Brownie apparently came over all American. It's sad to think that the cultural cringe that caused this novel to be rejected by Australian publishers in the late 50s (it was first published in 1962 in the UK) was alive and well in the late 80s (?), when the film version was made.
There's a wonderful energy and truth to this recounting of wild young love in 50s Australia (mostly Brisbane but other parts of Queensland as well as Sydney and Melbourne get a look in.) The pace never drags and the characters and events are sparklingly drawn. An absolute cracker. (