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Ashleigh on Ouyang Yu's novel, Billy Sing (2017)
https://ashleighmeikle.com.au/2017/03/24/billy-sing-by-ouyang-yu/ AUSTRALIAN LITERATURE , BOOKS , HISTORY , PUBLISHERS , READING , REVIEWS Billy Sing by Ouyang Yu March 24, 2017 Ashleigh Title: Billy Sing: A Novel Author: Ouyang Yu Genre: Fiction Publisher: Transit Lounge Published: 1 st April 2017 Format: Hardcover Pages: 144 Price: $27.95 Synopsis: William ‘Billy’ Sing was born in 1886 to an English mother and Chinese father. He and his two sisters were brought up in Clermont and Proserpine, in rural Queensland. He was one of the first to enlist in 1914 and at Gallipoli became famous for his shooting prowess. In his new novel, Billy Sing , Ouyang Yu embodies Sing’s voice in a magically descriptive prose that captures both the Australian landscape and vernacular. In writing about Sing’s triumphant yet conflicted life, and the horrors of war, Yu captures with imaginative power what it might mean to be both an outsider ...
