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1 comments about The Literary Larrikan: A Critical Biography of T.a.g. Hungerford.

1. Tom Hungerford is a wonderful Australian author who has combined incisive perceptive and descriptive skills over a writing career that has spanned most of his 90+ years.
   
   So, how is it that more people have not heard of him? I am ashamed to admit that I had not heard of him either until a year or so ago. Since then I've managed to acquire copies of most of his published works (each of his published novels, and collections of his short stories as well as some of his poetry).
   
   For those seeking to know more about the documented life, times and writings of Tom Hungerford, this is a valuable book. For those seeking to understand the man behind the author, this book will be of limited assistance. The voice of Tom Hungerford spans most of the 20th century. He was born just as Australia was still establishing its national identity (during World War I), saw active service in World War II, and has continued to contribute on many levels to Australia since then.
   
   According to the author, Tom Hungerford chose not to be associated with the production of this book after initially supporting it. I think this book suffers as a consequence, and I hope at some stage a book adddressing more completely the life of Tom Hungerford is written. In the meantime, reading his own works gives a sense of the man and reading this book provides a chronological framework.
   
   Tom Hungerford was the recipient of a Western Australian State Living Treasures award in 2004. He is now in his 90s and lives in Perth.
   
   Recommended for anyone wanting to know more about the work of this wonderful Australian author.
   
   Jennifer Cameron-Smith

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1 comments about Klara.

1. "The family came together for a weekend. Gertrude and Fritz from Berlin; Bertha and Gottfried from Hamburg; Jacob from his studies in Bonn- There was no way they could know that they world never be together in quite this way never again, but they sensed it. Every moment was treasured. As if a late sun cast shadows to highlight each leaf and each blade of grass, they saw things about each other that normally they would have passed on."
   
   
   This novel of Klara Hoffmann is a narration of the way of life in Germany for her and her family during the Second World War. Klara, a strong woman, was the very tower of strength for her mother and father, and her sisters and brothers during this dreadful time in history. Day after day, their lives were pressured and their minds opened as they saw things they should not have seen and kept wondering, as German Jews, when their turns would come, and how they would react to the indignity of the Nazis.
   
   Quickly the family shipped their sisters and their husbands to Buenos Aires, while a brother and his wife went off America. Klara, decided she would go nowhere until she felt her parents were safe. As much as they begged her to leave and get on with her life, she would not leave them.
   
   After the death of her father, she took her mother to stay with her sister trusting in God for safely there. Luckily, she was booked through a Nazi friend on a ship heading for England. Klara falls in love with this country and goes to live with a family. As the urgency for money came, and the need for aloneness, she took up a job as a restaurant and moved into her own dwelling place.
   
   As time went by Klara visited her family in Argentina and America, but decided that her life was better in England, which she now called home. Back in England with her health ailing, she felt the need for seeing her country again and she packed up and returned to Germany taking a friend Mavis just for the visit. Nostalgia set in as they went touring the places that she remembered including her old home, and even visiting the house where her mother and aunt had been taken away.
   
   When she returned to England where her health was no better than before, but as the stalwart that she was she accepted her heart condition.
   
   I have just scaled over some of the facts but to go too indepth into this story would certainly be giving too much away. If you are interested in the history of Germany around this period, you would appreciate this book.
   Reviewed by Heather Marshall Negahdar (Sugar-Cane 10/11/07)

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