# Fredy Neptune

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***Fredy Neptune: A Novel in Verse*** (1998) is a [verse novel](/source/Verse_novel) by the Australian poet [Les Murray](/source/Les_Murray_(poet)).

Told in eight-line stanzas, *Fredy Neptune* describes the experiences of Fred Boettcher, an Australian of German parentage, during the years between the world wars. The British poet [Ruth Padel](/source/Ruth_Padel) described the work as "a haunting, loving, fiercely democratic epic by a master poet."[1] It won the 1998 [Queensland Premier's Literary Awards](/source/Queensland_Premier's_Literary_Awards) Fiction Book Award.

In [Village Voice](/source/Village_Voice), Steve Burt wrote: "Fredy Neptune is Murray's best work yet, an almost completely successful round-the-world adventure novel in enticing, flexibly slangy (and very Australian-sounding) eight-line stanzas."

## Structure

The work is divided into five sections:

- Book I: The Middle Sea
- Book II: Barking at the Thunder
- Book III: Prop Sabres
- Book IV: The Police Revolution
- Book V: Lazarus Unstuck

## References

1. Padel, Ruth. "[Odysseus of the Outback.](https://www.nytimes.com/books/99/05/16/reviews/990516.16padelt.html)" *[New York Times](/source/New_York_Times)* review, 16 May 1999 (free registration required to view)

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