The Versatile Man (Don Ross) Stories & Poems Eventually the social barriers Roderick

Eventually the social barriers Roderick confronts and the psychological defences he constructs to survive them build to a pressure-cooker intensity

When Michael sets out to woo the girl of his dreams

A showdown can’t be far away when Zo and Missy’s worlds collide

the healers

With a foreword by Kim Scott – joint winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award

The Versatile Man (Don Ross) Stories & Poems Eventually the social barriers RoderickThe Life and Times of Don Ross Kaytetye Stockman Born in Barrow Creek, north of Alice Springs, to an Aboriginal mother and a white father, Don grew up on Neutral Junction station, between two worlds: the white settler world of his grandfather and other station owners, and the Kaytetye world of his mothers family. He knew both cultures and spoke both languages, and experienced the uneasy tension of living between the two. Don was an eager eight year