Alan Marshall's battlers
Criticism
Human-narrated audio
Summary
Alan Marshall writing on the poor, the dispossessed, and those who suffered the Great Depression of the 1930's. We meet Rattly Bob, the boxer who was paid to lose, a pieman, a street photographer, prostitutes, the 'seagulls', who lived on… the food thrown out from ships and the Collingwood poor who heated themselves on "Collingwood Coke" and took their food from rubbish bins. There are Aborigines in the far North and in the city, and the men of the cattle stations; further afield, a Chinese peasant girl, Mongolian tribesmen and the old men of Abkhazia. Marshall also writes of himself, of delerium in hospital, and of his old friends - his crutches.