The Mango Tree
1974 novel by Ronald McKie
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The Mango Tree is a Miles Franklin Award-winning novel by Australian author Ronald McKie.[1]
Synopsis
The story follows the childhood of a young man, named Jamie, growing up in a country town in Australia during the early 20th century.
Critical reception
Hope Hewitt in The Canberra Times found the author to be "an excellent reporter, quickly setting scene and then swiftly changing gear and catching the cxcitement of events moving too quickly for words. The climax of this book when the fanatic Preacher Jones goes round the bend and rampages off with a gun is a gripping piece of narrative. But good documentary and good reportage are not the same as good imaginative fiction. Their purposes are different; and in trying to concentrate as we clearly are meant to, on Jamie's development to whatever sort of person he is going to be, there needs to be a much greater selection and a different scale of proportions among the too rich material Mr McKie has to draw upon."[2]
Awards
Film Adaptation
In 1977, it was adapted into a film of the same name,[5] directed by Kevin James Dobson, from a script by Michael Pate, and featuring Gerald Fitzgerald, Robert Helpmann and Christopher Pate in the lead roles.[6]
References
- ^ Taylor, Cheryl. McKie, Ronald Cecil (1909–1991). Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University.
- ^ ""Honest but uneven novel"". The Canberra Times, 7 June 1974, p8. Retrieved 13 July 2023.
- ^ ""Fiction novice wins top prize"". The Sydney Morning Herald, 23 April 1975, p9. Retrieved 9 July 2023.
- ^ ""Awards by Fellowship of Australian Writers"". The Canberra Times, 5 March 1975, p16. Retrieved 13 July 2023.
- ^ "Austlit – The Mango Tree – film/TV adapatation". Austlit. Retrieved 9 July 2023.
- ^ "IMDB – The Mango Tree". IMDb. Retrieved 13 July 2023.
See also
- 1974 in Australian literature
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Miles Franklin Award
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- To the Islands by Randolph Stow (1958)
- The Big Fellow by Vance Palmer (1959)
- The Irishman by Elizabeth O'Conner (1960)
- Riders in the Chariot by Patrick White (1961)
- The Well Dressed Explorer by Thea Astley (1962)
- The Cupboard Under the Stairs by George Turner (1962)
- Careful, He Might Hear You by Sumner Locke Elliott (1963)
- My Brother Jack by George Johnston (1964)
- The Slow Natives by Thea Astley (1965)
- Trap by Peter Mathers (1966)
- Bring Larks and Heroes by Thomas Keneally (1967)
- Three Cheers for the Paraclete by Thomas Keneally (1968)
- Clean Straw for Nothing by George Johnston (1969)
- A Horse of Air by Dal Stivens (1970)
- The Unknown Industrial Prisoner by David Ireland (1971)
- The Acolyte by Thea Astley (1972)
- No award (1973)
- The Mango Tree by Ronald McKie (1974)
- Poor Fellow My Country by Xavier Herbert (1976)
- The Glass Canoe by David Ireland (1977)
- Swords and Crowns and Rings by Ruth Park (1978)
- A Woman of the Future by David Ireland (1979)
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