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Johnno is a semi-autobiographical novel written by Australian author David Malouf and was first published in 1975. It was Malouf's first novel. In 2004 it was selected by the Brisbane City Council as the joint-winner of the annual One Book One Brisbane competition to find the book that best represents Brisbane.
- David Malouf
- 1975
20 feb 2024 · Il significato e la storia del nome Johnno. Il nome Johnno ha origini antiche e significa "Dono di Dio". Scopri la storia affascinante di questo nome e il suo significato profondo.
1 gen 2001 · David Malouf. 3.73. 1,358 ratings109 reviews. Brought back to Australia by the death of his father, Dante is sorting through his father's belonging when he comes across a photograph of Johnno, a long-time friend. The photograph stirs up a lifetime of memories for Dante, leading him to finally set Johnno's story--which has haunted him ...
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7 mag 2015 · By the time poet David Malouf wrote Johnno , his first work of prose fiction, he was in his late thirties and living in the Renaissance city of Florence. Both European Florence and antipodean Brisbane mirror and enfold the novel's eponymous hero, Johnno, and his narrator-creator, Dante.
- Suzanne Gibson
- 2015
Malouf’s first novel was the autobiographical Johnno (1975), set in Brisbane during World War II. An Imaginary Life (1978) re-creates the final years of the Roman poet Ovid. Child’s Play (1981) concerns the metaphysical relationship between a professional assassin and his intended victim.
" Johnno is a typical Australian who refuses to be typical. His disorderly presence can disturb the staleness of his home town or destroy the tranquillity of a Greek landscape. An affectionately...
1 set 2008 · An affectionate and bittersweet portrait, Johnno brilliantly recreates the sleazy, tropical half-city that was Brisbane and captures a generation locked in combat with the elusive Australian dream. ‘Australia’s finest writer’ MIRIAM COSIC, THE AUSTRALIAN
