The Butcher Shop
| By: | Jean Devanny |
| Publisher: | Independent Publishers Group (Chicago Review Press) |
| Print ISBN: | 9781775581727 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781775581727 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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The Butcher Shop first appeared in 1926. Despite big overseas sales it was banned in New Zealand and later Australia for being disgusting, indecent and communistic – in other words for promoting revolutionary ideas about women and for a bold portrayal of the brutality of farm life. On one level, the novel is a fast-paced account of how passion and jealousy destroy the lives of a rich and cultured farming family; on another it is a fierce polemic for the freedom of women, which in its frankness was years ahead of its time.