The Multiple Effects of Rainshadow
$17.41
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
30 April 2018
Summary
In 1930, the superintendent of a mission on a Queensland island, driven mad by his wife’s death, goes on a murderous rampage. Fearing for their lives, the other whites arm a young Indigenous man and order him to shoot Uncle Boss dead. The Multiple Effects of Rainshadow traces the lead-up to this bloody showdown and the repercussions in the years after—for Aboriginal people and the colonial overseers.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781925603569 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1925603563 |
| Author: | Thea Astley, Chloe Hooper |
| Publisher: | Text Publishing |
| Imprint: | The Text Publishing Company |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 30 April 2018 |
| Weight: | 220g |
| Dimensions: | 25mm x 131mm x 197mm |
| Series: | Text Classics |
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Critics Review
‘Passion, brilliance and originality.’–Sydney Morning Herald; ‘Formidable…Uniquely provocative, acerbic and glittering.’–The Australian
‘Passion, brilliance and originality.’ * Sydney Morning Herald *
‘Formidable…Uniquely provocative, acerbic and glittering.’ * Australian *
Thea Astley
Thea Beatrice May Astley was born in Brisbane in 1925. In 1958, Astley’s first novel, Girl with a Monkey, was published. Over the next four decades, she published a work of fiction every few years. Her novels and short stories are distinguished by vivid imagery and metaphor; a complex, ironic style; and a desire to highlight oppression and social injustice.
Astley won the Miles Franklin Literary Award for The Well Dressed Explorer (1962), her third novel. Many notable books followed, among them the groundbreaking A Kindness Cup (1974), which addressed frontier massacres of Indigenous Australians, and It’s Raining in Mango (1987).
Astley won the 1989 Patrick White Award and became an Officer in the Order of Australia in 1992. Her last novel was Drylands (1999), her fourth Miles Franklin winner and first since 1972.
A lifelong chain-smoker famed for her sharp wit, Thea Astley died in 2004. She remains one of the most distinctive and influential Australian novelists of the twentieth century.
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