Popular Culture
- His book Father and Son partially inspired Oscar and Lucinda, a novel by Peter Carey which won the 1988 Booker Prize, and the 1989 Miles Franklin Award.
- Father and Son was also the basis for Dennis Potter's television play Where Adam Stood.
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