Alan Marshall (1) (1902–1984)
Auteur de I Can Jump Puddles
Pour les autres auteurs qui s'appellent Alan Marshall, voyez la page de désambigüisation.
A propos de l'auteur
Crédit image: Alan Marshall
Séries
Œuvres de Alan Marshall
Pull down the blind 2 exemplaires
The Singing Of The Sun (Australian Short Stories) 1 exemplaire
I Can Jump Puddles (ABC) 1 exemplaire
How The Moon Came (Australian Short Stories) 1 exemplaire
The Grey Kangaroo (Australian Short Stories) 1 exemplaire
Gay Provider: the Myer story, The 1 exemplaire
Battlers 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
The Paths I've Trod - Autobiography of an Australian Nurse (1981) — Avant-propos, quelques éditions — 9 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1902-05-02
- Date de décès
- 1984-01-21
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- Australia
- Lieu de naissance
- Noorat, Victoria, Australia
- Lieu du décès
- Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Critiques
Strange Australian fairy tale — pretty good fun, really, and very imaginative, but honestly, the princess rescuing trope and her reaction of perfect delight at the prospect of marrying Peter in order to cook and clean for him was not my favorite. I appreciated that the introduction addressed that, and I was impressed with the kangaroo with the the magic pouch — who wouldn’t want a friend like that?
Advanced Readers Copy provided by Edelweiss.
Advanced Readers Copy provided by Edelweiss.
This was one of our obligatory high school reads. My best friend's mother was crippled with polio and during the 60's in Sydney you would still see kids in primary schools in calipers. An inspiring book.
Alan Marshall contracted polio as a young child. What he also had was excellent observational skills and the ability to put this down on paper. In this first boy in a series of three he tells of growing up in a small town in the countryside in Victoria. He relies on his father and a few other adults as role models who instilled in him independence, and an attitude that there was nothing wrong with him; he was just as different from others as two other people are different from each other.
The book gives a great picture of the tough life that people in rural Australia endured in the 1920s.… (plus d'informations)
The book gives a great picture of the tough life that people in rural Australia endured in the 1920s.… (plus d'informations)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 35
- Aussi par
- 8
- Membres
- 580
- Popularité
- #43,223
- Évaluation
- 3.9
- Critiques
- 7
- ISBN
- 147
- Langues
- 8
- Favoris
- 1
Everyone my age knew children and adults who had disabilities from polio, a disease now almost eradicated by the vaccination which became available in the 1950s. Alan Marshall AM (1902-1984) was one of many who had no alternative but to make the best of things at a time when services for the disabled were rudimentary. As a teenager he won a scholarship to study in Melbourne and he eventually began work as an accountant and married and had a family. He went on to make a career as a journalist, and as a writer of short stories, memoir and a novel. He received the ALS Short Story Award three times, the first in 1933, but his politics were radical and according to the Australian Dictionary of Biography (ADB) many of his contributions to left-wing journals went unpaid.
When Marshall published How Beautiful Are Thy Feet in 1949, it was a story set within living memory of his adult readers, and it's consistent with what the ADB says about his interest in depicting lives blighted by prevailing economic conditions. Drawing on his experience as an accountant at the Trueform Boot and Shoe Company in inner-urban Melbourne, and written in the social realist style of the 1940s and 1950s, it's the story of workers in a failing shoe factory during the Depression.
McCormack, whose crutches are mentioned almost as an afterthought, is mostly referred to as The Accountant, as if to emphasise that he is an observant outsider. He's not a factory worker, he's not in sales, and he's not in management. But he is privy to the financial disaster that is looming, and without breaking the confidentiality of his position, he enables some of the workers to get out with good references before the axe falls. It is not until the end of the novel that he makes a significant intervention which saves three shareholder houses that formed security for the factory from the bank. (I think what he did would be illegal today, (as was continuing to trade when management knew the business was insolvent) but Marshall's sympathies were obviously not with the bank!)
How Beautiful Are Thy Feet vividly depicts working conditions that would not be tolerated today,
To read the rest of my review please visit https://anzlitlovers.com/2023/06/12/how-beautiful-are-thy-feet-1949-by-alan-mars...… (plus d'informations)