Word: illawarra
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...like the nation, a work in progress. "No country lives with its whole history," he says. "We only live with the stories we choose to tell." In Hall's blackly comic and underrated Hitler (2000), these stories now include a mustard gas-blinded future F?hrer who staggers off an Illawarra and South Coast Steamship Company boat in 1919, making fiendish fun of "the fact, universally acknowledged, that nothing ever happens in Australia." With his finely fervent fiction, Rodney Hall proves that...
...night in January 1975, the zinc-laden freighter Lake Illawarra plowed into the Tasman Bridge, killing twelve motorists and crewmen and severing the main link between Hobart, the capital of Australia's island state of Tasmania, and its eastern suburbs. Next morning, as some 30,000 suburbanites set out for work, they found that the former three-minute commute over the bridge had turned into a pilgrimage of an hour and a half at rush hours, requiring a detour of 33 miles...
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