Halfway to Anywhere (novel) explained

Halfway to Anywhere
Author:	Norman Lindsay
Published:	Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1947

Halfway to Anywhere is a 1947 novel written and illustrated by Norman Lindsay. It is a humorous novel dealing with Australian adolescents. It the final part of a trilogy which began with Redheap and was continued in Saturdee.^[1] According to The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Literature in English, "these novels, with their sexually vigorous young protagonists, comically depict small town life."^[2] The novel was adapted for the screen in 1972.

Sources

• Encyclopedia: 1996 . Lindsay, Norman . The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Literature in English . Oxford University Press . Sutherland . J. . Stringer . J..
• Encyclopedia: 1994 . Saturdee . The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature . Oxford University Press . Wilde . W. . 2nd . Hooton . J. . Andrews . B..

Further reading

• News: 27 December 1947 . New Fiction. Halfway to Anywhere . 8 . .
• News: 27 December 1947 . Remember your boyhood? . 14 . .
• News: 3 January 1948 . Mr Lindsay and Others . .
• News: 10 January 1948 . Norman Lindsay True to Form . 6 . .

Notes and References

1. Wilde; Hooton; Andrews 1994.
2. Sutherland 1996.