Spirit of progress
By: Steven Carroll
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Pymble, N.S.W
Language: eng
Number of pages: 347
ISBN-13: 9780732291181
Subjects: Fiction; Social life and customs
Description: Vic is driving a troop train pulling into Melbourne's Spencer Street Station in 1946. His young wife, Rita, is at home awaiting the birth of their first child amid a time of post-war homecomings and departures, the Angry Penguins and social and artistic change.