I have just finished reading Vortex and read or listened to the reviews, none of which in my opinion adequately reflects the devastating issues that I believe Rodney is targeting in this work. (Reminding me of how devastating it was to read A Stolen Season.) The tawdry and dishonest attitudes towards foreigners and refugees at that time that still exist in human breasts – well, everywhere I suppose – but with a local flavour in the Brisbane of 1954. However the point is well made in the Bookshelf episode about the indifference of the British to the miseries in their former empire.
I enjoyed the quirkiness of the characters - reminding me of Patrick White's characters - that both disguises…
I have just finished reading Vortex and read or listened to the reviews, none of which in my opinion adequately reflects the devastating issues that I believe Rodney is targeting in this work. (Reminding me of how devastating it was to read A Stolen Season.) The tawdry and dishonest attitudes towards foreigners and refugees at that time that still exist in human breasts – well, everywhere I suppose – but with a local flavour in the Brisbane of 1954. However the point is well made in the Bookshelf episode about the indifference of the British to the miseries in their former empire.
I enjoyed the quirkiness of the characters - reminding me of Patrick White's characters - that both disguises…