Reality and fantasy combine in Immaculate, Anna McGahan's award-winning debut novel
- Written by: Jessica Gildersleeve, Professor of English Literature, University of Southern Queensland
Allegory of the Immaculate Conception – Gregorio Vasquez de Arce y Ceballos (1638–1711).Public domainI read Andrew McGahan’s Praise (1992) in my first year of university. I was blown away. It was unlike anything else I had ever read: raw, gritty, real.
One of the most prominent writers of Australia’s short-lived literary...
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