Dogod

In the cover photo here, the Golden Receiver by any other name only deigned to look down at me directly because I had meaty bites stuck up my nose. And how come I’m the only one to have aged since?
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Ed: following is the Thomas-Nelson-Australia’s 1977 blurb for the original edition, but here annotated, in italics, by the author for this reprint.

‘Bill Reed’s first novel is a celebration of the Australian language. ‘Dogod’ employs a language that uses our sounds, our national images...