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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN num: 9780521007146
ISBN number: 0521007143
Label: Cambridge University Press
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 564
Printing Date: April 11, 2002
Publishing house: Cambridge University Press
Sale Popularity Level: 3450648
Studio: Cambridge University Press
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At D.H. Lawrence's suggestion, a nurse and author, Mollie Skinner wrote about a young Englishman's reactions to late nineteenth-century Western Australia; then Lawrence completely rewrote it. This is the very first critical edition of that novel, The Boy in the Bush. The reading text eliminates publishers' censorship and the miscopyings of typists and typesetters. The compositional development and the variants of the typescripts and very first editions are given in the textual apparatus. Explanatory notes distinguish local and historical material. Appendices include maps, an outline history of the colony and two of Lawrence's essays about the collaboration, one of which appears here for the very first time in English.
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"The Boy in the Bush"
In this book - very first published in 1924 - D.H. Lawrence recasts a manuscript which was originally written by one Mollie Skinner, a woman he met when he was travelling in Australia.
Theme: Jack Hector Grant, aged 17, has been been kicked out of his agricultural college in England, as the book opens. His mother was a native Australian, his father is in the army, both prefer travelling the world rather than living a life in England, so Jack has seen little of his parents during his boyhood, having been left in the charge of others. Jack is sent from Bedford, England, to live in Australia for a while. As the book opens, he arrives at the sea port of Fremantle, Western Australia in 1882, having travelled there on board a wool ship, to take up residency, and is placed with a family already settled there there. Thus begins his new life in Australia.
The book traces his journey from the age of 17 into maturity - his relationship with a family he lives with initially; his loves; his battles; his work and where it takes him; his relationship to the world in general, and to women in particular; and shows how he gradually changes and evolves as a person and becomes wilder, and one with the land, after being exposed for a long time to the hardships of the rougher and more solitary side of life in a young Australia.
This isn't a book I would recommend anyone to read. It is not the best of literature one could find. The book is too slow and laboured and long-winded (391 pages); the language is protracted, deliberately drawn out too long, and often repetitive; the ideas wander unnecessarily, on and on; the story itself is not particularly unusual or sufficiently interesting to amount to a reason to read the book; the account is overall too long; there is no actual climax, but simply a historical account following the progression of the youth through to the man; and there isn't enough to be gained from the book to make the long journey through it worthwhile. (But do read it if you want to, these are only my views.)
Two and a half stars.
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The Boy in the Bush is a minor work being a collaboration between Lawrence & Mollie Skinner. It is still a interesting read containing "Laurentian" ideas more fully worked out in his other novels.
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