Author: B.J. Pettit. Published by Waratah Press, Nanaimo, BC., 1999, 1st Edition. FLAT SIGNED by the Author on the title page. Printed in Canada. Like New Condition SOFTCOVER Book. Clean inside, tight spine. Size: 8.5 x 5.5 inch, 212 pages.
WHEN THE CURLEW CRIES, by B.J. Pettit, is based on a true story of Brian and his son returning to Australia together to track down his long lost Aboriginal students he taught in the outback twenty-something years earlier. Written in the same salty humour and beautiful prose that you've come to expect, as this book is a continuation of his first book, THE WEILMORINGLE KID.
The unique bi-cultural community at Weilmoringle is experiencing profound changes resulting from a declining wool market, and the new High Court decisions favouring native land title. Pettit, now a Canadian citizen, draws comparisons between Australian and Canadian questions of identity.
