The Year of Living Dangerously

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The Year of Living Dangerously

novel by Koch

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Australian literature
Literature from 1970 to 2000
…reading of political events in The Year of Living Dangerously (1978) and Highways to a War (1995) and the shadowy otherness of Tasmania in The Doubleman (1985) and Out of Ireland (1999). Likewise, Shirley Hazzard wrote with great seriousness of purpose in her modern tragedy The Transit of Venus (1980),…
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…reading of political events in The Year of Living Dangerously (1978) and Highways to a War (1995) and the shadowy otherness of Tasmania in The Doubleman (1985) and Out of Ireland (1999). Likewise, Shirley Hazzard wrote with great seriousness of purpose in her modern tragedy The Transit of Venus (1980),…
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C.J. Koch
…most famous and acclaimed novel, The Year of Living Dangerously (1978), follows radio journalist Guy Hamilton as he arrives in Indonesia on the eve of a coup intended to topple the dictator Sukarno. The character Billy Kwan exemplifies a motif in Koch’s work, the individual who pays a mortal price…
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…most famous and acclaimed novel, The Year of Living Dangerously (1978), follows radio journalist Guy Hamilton as he arrives in Indonesia on the eve of a coup intended to topple the dictator Sukarno. The character Billy Kwan exemplifies a motif in Koch’s work, the individual who pays a mortal price…
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