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Billy Sing : a novel / Ouyang Yu.

Billy Sing : a novel / Ouyang Yu.
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ISBN 9780995359444 (hardback)
Name Ouyang, Yu, 1955- author.
Title Billy Sing : a novel / Ouyang Yu.
Published [Melbourne, Victoria] : Transit Lounge Publishing, 2017.
©2017
Description 135 pages ; 22 cm.
Notes Decorated end papers.
Includes bibliographical references.
Summary William 'Billy' Sing was born in 1886 to an English mother and Chinese father. He and his two sisters were brought up in Clermont and Proserpine, in rural Queensland. He was one of the first to enlist in 1914 and at Gallipoli became famous for his shooting prowess. This novel embodies Sing's voice in a magically descriptive prose that captures both the Australian landscape and vernacular. In writing about Sing's triumphant yet conflicted life, and the horrors of war, this novel captures with imaginative power what it might mean to be both an outsider and a hero in one's own country. The telling is poetic and realist, the author's understanding of being a Chinese-Australian sensitively informs the narrative.
Subjects Sing, Billy, -- 1886-1943 -- Fiction
World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- Turkey -- Gallipoli Peninsula -- Fiction
Chinese Australians -- Turkey -- Gallipoli Peninsula -- Fiction
Australian fiction
Genre Biographical fiction
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