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This semi-autobiographical novel, definable as a roman à clef, follows the narrator, David Meredith, through his childhood and adolescence in interwar Melbourne through to adulthood and his prominent career as a journalist during World War II, to his life on a Greek island in the 1950s and 60s.
Jun 3, 2001 · My Brother Jack: Directed by Ken Cameron. With Matt Day, Simon Lyndon, Claudia Karvan, William McInnes. A boy looks up to his big brother, Jack, who is his hero and is someone that he is not - brave, noble and has the courage to stand up to their father.
A roman-à-clef based on the author George Johnston’s life, narrator David Meredith tells his story from his youngest memories of his father coming home from the Great War through to the end of the Second World War when David had become a war correspondence journalist of some repute.
My Brother Jack is George Johnston's classic 1964 novel that tells the story of two brothers and how the cope with grief, death, and loss in their own separate ways.
Jul 4, 2017 · Watch the award winning adaptation of George Johnston's novel, My Brother Jack, about two brothers' lives between the World Wars. The miniseries explores social and political issues, family conflicts and David's ambition to become a writer.
Mar 1, 2013 · Acknowledged as one of the true Australian classics, My Brother Jack is a deeply satisfying, complex and moving literary masterpiece. David Meredith's story continues in the...
Through the story of the two brothers George Johnston created an enduring exploration of two Australian myths: that of the man who loses his soul as he gains worldly success,...
