Fredy_Neptune

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Fredy Neptune

Verse novel by Les Murray

Fredy Neptune: A Novel in Verse (1998) is a verse novel by the Australian poet Les Murray.

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Told in eight-line stanzas, Fredy Neptune describes the experiences of Fred Boettcher, an Australian of German parentage, during the years between the world wars. The British poet Ruth Padel described the work as "a haunting, loving, fiercely democratic epic by a master poet."[1] It won the 1998 Queensland Premier's Literary Awards Fiction Book Award.

In Village Voice, Steve Burt wrote: "Fredy Neptune is Murray's best work yet, an almost completely successful round-the-world adventure novel in enticing, flexibly slangy (and very Australian-sounding) eight-line stanzas."

Structure

The work is divided into five sections:

  • Book I: The Middle Sea
  • Book II: Barking at the Thunder
  • Book III: Prop Sabres
  • Book IV: The Police Revolution
  • Book V: Lazarus Unstuck

References

  1. [1]
    Padel, Ruth. "Odysseus of the Outback." New York Times review, 16 May 1999 (free registration required to view)


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