sentences:  No longer contemptuous of the outback's inhabitants and more assured of himself, John returns to Tiboonda to begin the new school year.A film version of "Wake in Fright", based on the 1961 novel by Kenneth Cook, was linked with the actor Dirk Bogarde and the director Joseph Losey as early as 1963.Morris West later secured the film rights and tried, unsuccessfully, to raise funding for the film's production.