The Young Desire It by Kenneth MacKenzie (9781922147509)

Description - The Young Desire It by Kenneth MacKenzie

Introduced byDavid Malouf.
In the late afternoon of a day in February, that hottest of Australian summer months, when abrutal sun stood bronze above the river flats which you may see from the dormitory windows ofChatterton, Charles came to the school with his mother, walking from the railway station to thegates by a private path across a burnt, untidy field, overhung with Cape lilacs that still drooped,dusty and melancholy...In the lower part of his belly fear kicked and pulsed like a child in thewomb, ready to be born.
Fifteen-year-old Charles Fox is sent away to boarding school, innocent, alone and afraid. Thereone of his masters develops an intense attachment to him. But when Charles meets Margaret, agirl staying at a nearby farm for the holidays, he is besotted, and a passionate, unforgettableromance begins.
Published in London in 1937 to wide acclaim, The Young Desire It is a stunning debut novel aboutcoming of age- an intimate and lyrical account of first love, and a rich evocation of rural WesternAustralia. It won the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal, and is now back in print for thefirst time in years with a new introduction by David Malouf.

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