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Waiting for Childhood

Waiting for Childhood
AuthorSumner Locke Elliott
LanguageEnglish
Subjectorphans
Set inAustralia
PublisherHarper and Row
Publication date
1987
Publication placeUSA

Waiting for Childhood is a 1987 novel by Sumner Locke Elliott. It is based on his mother's family and set in Australia.[1][2]

Publisher's Weekly called it "an engrossing, extraordinarily well-crafted novel."[3]

The Los Angeles Times said the novel "manages at once to be terribly melancholy and extraodinarily exciting."[4]

References

  1. ^ Jill Roe, 'Elliott, Sumner Locke (1917–1991)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/elliott-sumner-locke-14903/text26094, published online 2014, accessed online 7 October 2024.
  2. ^ "Careful he remembers". The Sydney Morning Herald Guide. 27 February 1989. p. 2s.
  3. ^ Review of novel at Publishers Weekly
  4. ^ "Book review". The Los Angeles Times. 7 September 1987. p. 4 Part 4.
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