Kangaroo (Annotated)

Kangaroo (1923) transposes D. H. Lawrence's urgent modernism to postwar Australia, where the English writer Richard Lovat Somers and his wife Harriet encounter a society outwardly spacious yet inwardly riven by ideological violence. Part political novel, part psychological confession, it mingles sensuous landscape-writing with prophetic argument, dramatizing Somers's attraction to—and recoil from—...