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The Channels Author: Merv Lilley

ISBN: 9780957735255 Format: Paperback Number Of Pages: 255 Published: 1 January 2001 Country of Publication: AU Dimensions (cm): 20.0 x 13.0 Description: Merv Lilley has had a working life as a cane-cutter, seaman and miner, among other occupations. He has been a writer and reciter for over 60 years.

'The Channels' is a fictionalised autobiography (Lilley describes it as a "faction") of a Lilley-like figure who travelled Queensland looking for work, strife and political struggle in the 1950s and onwards. Lilley's work represents a continuation of the social realist tradition into the present period. The solidity and integrity of an old politics remains unchanged and this in part explains the book's failure to attract corporate publishers.

Yet the book's focus on the psychological and its level of formal experimentation could never have been sanctioned by Communist Party publishers. Never one to buckle under party or any other kind of pressure, Lilley has written the novel of his life with a steady gaze. It lambasts the contradictions and hypocrisies of Australian Stalinism at the same time as it rails against the rule of Menzies and the rich.

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