Kangaroo

Trying to avoid the collapse of rootless, restless, nomadic, post-war Europe, Richard and Harriet Somers flee to Australia, hoping to start a new and freer life. Richard, a disillusioned writer, is drawn into an extreme political group led by the mysterious Kangaroo. Looking for perfect love, both brotherly and personally, the Somers find themselves both lured and repelled by Kangaroos – with terrible consequences. This is D. H. Lawrence's eighth novel set in Australia. He wrote the first draft in forty-five days, living south of Sydney, and reviewed it three months later in New Mexico. The depictions of the country are vivid and coming, and the book combines an easily disguised autobiography with the exploration of political ideas on a highly personal level.

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