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Fourth Estate

An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers

First published in Australia in 2011
This edition published in 2012

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Copyright © Steven Carroll 2011

The right of Steven Carroll to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him under the Copyright Amendment (Moral Rights) Act 2000.

This work is copyright. Apart from any use as permitted under the Copyright Act 1968, no part may be reproduced, copied, scanned, stored in a retrieval system, recorded, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the publisher.

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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