Wild Cat Falling (Angus & Robertson Classics)

by Lynn Munsinger (Illustrator), Mudrooroo (Author), Lynn Munsinger (Illustrator)

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  Paperback
  2001

  $13.47

  Wild Cat Falling is the story of an Aboriginal youth, a 'bodgie' of the early sixties who grows up on the ragged outskirts of a country town, falls into petty crime, goes to gaol, and comes out to do battle once more with the society who put him there. Its publication in 1965 marked a unique literary event, for this was the first novel by any writer of Aboriginal blood to be published in Australia. As well, it is a remarkable piece of literature in its own right, expressing the dilemmas and conflicts of the young Aboriginal in modern Australian society with its memorable insight and stylishness.