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Article: City Bushman: Henry Lawson and the Australian Imagination.(Book Review)
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- Australian Literary Studies
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- October 1, 2005
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City Bushman. Henry Lawson and the Australian Imagination, by Christopher Lee. Fremantle: Curtin University Books, an imprint of Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 2004. $29.95.
'For me', writes Christopher Lee in his introduction to City Bushman, 'Henry Lawson is intimately associated with ... memories of family'. Lee remembers the stories his mother told her children as they grew up in the city, stories of her rural childhood, and of her father who was a bushman, timber cutter, bullock driver, farmer, road worker--just the sort of figure one might encounter in a Lawson short story or poem. Family stories and Lawson's writing became comfortably and seamlessly ...