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Violence
Barely any
Mild; political tension; some depiction of street violence
Language
Barely any
Mild; Lawrence's literary register
Sexual Content
Some
Adult content; Lawrence's characteristic examination of the sexual dimension of power between a husband and wife
Substance Use
Barely any
Mild; social drinking
Emotional Intensity
A lot
Strong; the nature of political conviction and its costs; a writer's relationship to ideology; the psychology of marriage as Lawrence understood it
What this book is about
D.H. Lawrence's Kangaroo follows Richard Lovat Somers, a British writer who relocates to Australia with his wife Harriet and becomes enmeshed in the political world of an obscure nationalist movement led by a man called Kangaroo. Largely autobiographical — Lawrence wrote it after his own time in Australia — the novel combines political philosophy, marriage psychology, and Lawrence's characteristic examination of power between men and women. One of his less read novels, but unmistakably his in voice.
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