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took his life when she was seven and the significance of this painting.
And we also have to figure out this character who enters called Achilles.
Yes, and I was reading this really fascinating piece by Peter Politis, a Greek-Australian writer, writing about this book in The Guardian.
And one of the things that he picked out as being really ringing true for him was about this type of masculinity.
He says, the rendering of my community sings to me toxic men who are bound by Southern European masculinity and the savagely intelligent women.
I can see those women in my mind's eye, alert and daring, reading this, Noel.
these characters unleashed a storm of melancholia.
What attracted me to this book is just the terrain of Greek Australia and Greek Australian cafes in particular.
And back to Peter Polites again, he says, "'Local Greek diners were in every suburban country town of Australia.
They saluted Camp Americana with booths and soda fountains and names like the Niagara and the Californian.'
and played an important role in Australia's casual dining landscape before pub counter meals took over.
They were also, he writes, the place where Anglo Australians had their first encounters with us wogs.
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I'm Cassie McCullough, here as always with Kate Evans, delighted to be joined now by the writer Jane Gleeson-White.