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Authors: Steven Carroll
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First published in Australia in 2011
This edition published in 2012
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National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication entry
Carroll, Steven, 1949-
Spirit of progress / Steven Carroll.
ISBN: 978 0 7322 9118 1 (pbk.)
ISBN: 978 0 7304 9785 1 (epub)
Melbourne (Vic.) – Social life and customs – Fiction.
A823.3
Cover design: Natalie Winter
Cover image:
Mark Strizio, Queens Walk, Melbourne, ca 1950, silver gelatin photograph, State Library of Victoria Archive