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Wake in Fright has the power to disturb, a rare thing in any novel." Adaptation. The novel was adapted for the screen in 1971. The film was directed by Ted Kotcheff, from a script by Evan Jones, and featured Gary Bond, Donald Pleasence and Chips Rafferty in the lead roles. The novel was also adapted for a two-part miniseries in 2017.
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Kenneth Cook. 3.98. 2,752 ratings392 reviews. Filmed as The Outback. Wake In Fright was first published in 1961 and the film version, The Outback, starring Donald Pleasance was released in 1971. Both the book and the film have achieved a cult status as the Australian answer to US and UK novels and films of 1960s youthful alienation.
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Known for. Wake in Fright. Eliza Fraser. Kenneth Bernard Cook (5 May 1929 – 18 April 1987) [1] was an Australian journalist, [2] television documentary maker, and novelist best known for his works Wake in Fright, which is still in print five decades after its first publication, [3] and the humorous Killer Koala trilogy.
Apr 26, 2012 · Kenneth Cook was born in Sydney in 1929. Wake in Fright was published in 1961 to high praise in New York and London, and launched Cook's writing career. Cook wrote twenty-one books in all, along with screenplays and scripts for radio and TV. Peter Temple is one of Australia's finest writers.
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Apr 2, 2013 · Kenneth Cook was born in Sydney. Wake in Fright, which drew on his time as a journalist in Broken Hill, was first published in 1961 when Cook was thirty-two. It was published in England and America, translated into several languages, and a prescribed text in schools.
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Wake in Fright. Wake in Fright (initially released as Outback outside Australia) is a 1971 Australian New Wave film directed by Ted Kotcheff, written by Evan Jones, and starring Gary Bond, Donald Pleasence, Chips Rafferty, Sylvia Kay and Jack Thompson. Based on Kenneth Cook 's 1961 novel of the same name, it follows a young schoolteacher who ...
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Apr 26, 2012 · KENNETH COOK was born in Sydney in 1929, and attended Fort Street High School. He went on to work as a journalist, among other jobs. In Wake in Fright, his second novel, Cook drew on his observations of Broken Hill, in New South Wales, where he spent a couple of years in the early fifties working for the Australian Broadcasting Commission.
