The Mango Tree

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| author = Ronald McKie

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| country = Australia

| language = English

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| publisher = Collins, Australia

| release_date = 1974

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| media_type = Print (hardback and paperback)

| pages = 211

| isbn = 0-00-221586-1

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The Mango Tree is a Miles Franklin Award-winning novel by Australian author Ronald McKie.{{Cite book|url=http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/mckie-ronald-cecil-15568|title=McKie, Ronald Cecil (1909–1991)|last=Taylor|first=Cheryl|publisher=National Centre of Biography, Australian National University|location=Canberra}}

Synopsis

The story follows the childhood of a young man, named Jamie, growing up in a country town in Australia during the early 20th century.

Critical reception

Hope Hewitt in The Canberra Times found the author to be "an excellent reporter, quickly setting scene and then swiftly changing gear and catching the cxcitement of events moving too quickly for words. The climax of this book when the fanatic Preacher Jones goes round the bend and rampages off with a gun is a gripping piece of narrative. But good documentary and good reportage are not the same as good imaginative fiction. Their purposes are different; and in trying to concentrate as we clearly are meant to, on Jamie's development to whatever sort of person he is going to be, there needs to be a much greater selection and a different scale of proportions among the too rich material Mr McKie has to draw upon."{{cite web|title="Honest but uneven novel" |publisher= The Canberra Times, 7 June 1974, p8|url= http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article110782086|accessdate= 13 July 2023}}

Awards

Miles Franklin Award, 1974{{cite web|title="Fiction novice wins top prize" |publisher= The Sydney Morning Herald, 23 April 1975, p9|url= https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1301&dat=19750423&id=5_9jAAAAIBAJ&pg=4074,5934044&hl=en|accessdate= 9 July 2023}}
Barbara Ramsden Award, 1974{{cite web|title="Awards by Fellowship of Australian Writers" |publisher= The Canberra Times, 5 March 1975, p16|url= http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article116336649|accessdate= 13 July 2023}}

Film Adaptation

In 1977, it was adapted into a film of the same name,{{cite web|title= Austlit – The Mango Tree – film/TV adapatation |publisher= Austlit|url= https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/C509145|accessdate= 9 July 2023}} directed by Kevin James Dobson, from a script by Michael Pate, and featuring Gerald Fitzgerald, Robert Helpmann and Christopher Pate in the lead roles.{{cite web|title= IMDB – The Mango Tree |publisher= IMDb|url= https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076359/|accessdate= 13 July 2023}}

The Mango Tree

Synopsis

Critical reception

Awards

Film Adaptation

References

See also