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Schoolboy narrator Daniel Jordan, growing up in working-class Sydney during the Second World War, is confused by a world in which the religious dogma of his school conflicts with the communism of his family's terrifying neighbour, the 'Comrade'. Refreshingly unsentimental, this is the funny, ultimately tragic story of a boy struggling to understand a world in which concepts like innocence and guilt, good and evil are clearly open to interpretation.

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Schoolboy narrator Daniel Jordan, growing up in working-class Sydney during the Second World War, is confused by a world in... Read more

    Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
    Publication Date: 19/10/1995
    ISBN13: 9780340562314, 978-0340562314
    ISBN10: 0340562315

    Number of Pages: 144

    Fiction , Contemporary Fiction

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    Schoolboy narrator Daniel Jordan, growing up in working-class Sydney during the Second World War, is confused by a world in which the religious dogma of his school conflicts with the communism of his family's terrifying neighbour, the 'Comrade'. Refreshingly unsentimental, this is the funny, ultimately tragic story of a boy struggling to understand a world in which concepts like innocence and guilt, good and evil are clearly open to interpretation.

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