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Rabbit-Proof Fence
 

Rabbit-Proof Fence: The True Story of One of the Greatest Escapes of All Time

by Doris Pilkington

Following an Australian government edict in 1931, black aboriginal children and children of mixed marriages were gathered up and taken to settlements to be institutionally assimilated. In Rabbit-Proof Fence, award-wining author Doris Pilkington traces the story of her mother, Molly, one of three young girls uprooted from their community in Southwestern Australia and taken to the Moore River... (read more)

Top tags: australia,  non-fiction,  racism,  journey,  biography (all tags)

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Shukri O
  • Rated 5 stars

“A must read.”

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Didn’t Like It

Dawn L
  • Rated 2 stars

“The story is a good one - but it is told awkwardly and key areas seem to be missing - that likely took a long time. So it's really difficult to get a whole feel for how this went. It appears the author was taken from her mother at a young age and never reunited - yet she got the info for the story from her Mom and an aunt. Maybe I missed something.”

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Community:
  • Rated 3.523809 stars
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  • Rated 3.5 stars
  

Newest Comments

  • victorbravo

    victorbravo said:

    “I think that perhaps b/c the author of the book was not a "professional writer" or particularly gifted that the story's presentation did not have as much polish. In this case, I think the story should be considered for what it is - a very good story and not an example of fine writing.”

    posted Saturday, May 5 2007
  • lioness7

    lioness7 said:

    “I actually enjoyed the book better than the movie. I thought it was a benefit to have the book written by the actual people that the evenets happened to in the book. I thought that using more Australian dialect brought tecture to the book.”

    posted Friday, April 27 2007
  • lilaphase

    lilaphase said:

    “Different dialects

    I loved the book and the movie, but I found the writing style difficult. Was the writing hard to follow because it was written by an Australian author, or because it was awkwardly written? I”

    posted Friday, April 27 2007
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