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On luck

by Anne Summers

This essay explores the quality of resilience through a memoir of family and the immigrant experience. Part of a series on life themes, it reflects on personal endurance and cultural identity in the Australian context.

Accession 8293 ISBN 9780522856637 Publisher Melbourne University Press
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