Drylands
$17.16
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
30 April 2018
Summary
First published in 1999, Drylands was Thea Astley’s fourth and final Miles Franklin winner.
In the dying town of Drylands, Janet Deakin sells papers to lonely locals. At night, in her flat above the newsagency, she attempts to write a novel for a world in which no one reads - ‘full of people, she envisaged, glaring at a screen that glared glassily back.’ Drylands is the story of the townsfolk’s harsh, violent lives. Trenchant and brilliant, Thea Astley’s final novel is a dark portrait…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781925603576 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1925603571 |
| Author: | Thea Astley, Emily Maguire |
| Publisher: | Text Publishing |
| Imprint: | The Text Publishing Company |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 30 April 2018 |
| Weight: | 194g |
| Dimensions: | 29mm x 198mm x 129mm |
| Series: | Text Classics |
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‘It is impossible to put this book down. It seethes with energy and passion.’–Herald Sun; ‘Wonderful.’–The Australian
‘It is impossible to put this book down. It seethes with energy and passion.’ * Herald Sun *
‘Wonderful.’ * Australian *
About The Author
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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