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My Brother Jack. My Brother Jack is a classic 1964 Australian novel by writer George Johnston. [3] It is part of a trilogy centering on the character of David Meredith. The other books in the trilogy are Clean Straw for Nothing and A Cartload of Clay. [4] Its text is commonly studied for many English literature subjects in Australia.
An Australian classic, My Brother Jack is the story of Davy and Jack Meredith, two brothers growing up in a Melbourne suburb during the years between the First and Second World War. Born to a drunken, abusive father and a caring, loving mother, the boys are distinctively different from an early age.
Jul 4, 2017 · Duration: 3 hours 30 minutes. Availability: Worldwide. The award winning Australian miniseries based on George Johnston's classic novel, My Brother Jack, is the story of two brothers, David and Jack Meredith, set between the two World Wars. David Meredith (Matt Day) lives on the Greek Island of Hydra isolated from his emotional and physical past.
Jun 3, 2001 · My Brother Jack: Directed by Ken Cameron. With Matt Day, Simon Lyndon, Claudia Karvan, William McInnes. A boy looks up to his big brother, Jack, who is his hero and is someone that he is not - brave, noble and has the courage to stand up to their father.
My Brother Jack. George Johnston. Angus & Robertson, Mar 1, 2013 - Fiction - 384 pages. The Miles Franklin award-winning classic. 'One of the greatest books written this century' - The Illustrated London News. 'the thing I am trying to get at is what made Jack different from me. Different all through our lives, I mean, and in a special sense ...
May 3, 2010 · My brother Jack; a novel by Johnston, George Henry, 1912-1970. Publication date 1964 Publisher London, Collins Collection internetarchivebooks; americana; inlibrary; ...
Ed Devereaux stars as Jack in the 1965 television serial adaption of George Johnston's 1964 book My Brother Jack, adapted for ABC television by Charmian Clift. This semi-autobiographical novel follows the narrator, David Meredith, through his childhood and adolescence in interwar Melbourne (1920's and 1930's) through to adulthood and his journalism career during World War II.
