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A Descant for Gossips by Thea Astley
$19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: UQP Modern Classics
In this classic story of small-town life, two schoolteachers are drawn to each other by their concern for a lonely young girl. For as long as Vinny Lalor could remember, she had been on the fringe of things - in her family and at school. But as the final term of the year progresses, rumour and malice mo ...Show more
A Kindness Cup: Text Classics by Thea Astley
$12.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
"A writer of astonishing gifts." --Publishers Weekly "Smart, compassionate." --New York Times Text Classics presents four key works from Thea Astley, including two never previously released in the United States. Two decades after a massacre of local Aboriginal people, the former residents of a Queens ...Show more
COLLECTED STORIES: THEA ASTLEY by ASTLEY THEA
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
A collection of stories from one of Australia's most original writers which spans thirty-five years and includes many stories that have not been previously published.
Drylands: Text Classics by Thea Astley
$12.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
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 ...Show more
Drylands: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2000 by Thea Astley
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
In her flat above Drylands' newsagency, Janet Deakin is writing a book for the world's last reader. Little has changed here in fifty years except for the coming of cable TV. Lonliness is almost a religion, and still everyone knows your business.
It's Raining in Mango: Popular Penguins by Thea Astley
$9.95 AUD
Category: Display & Gift | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
One family traced from the 1860s to the 1980s, beginning with Cornelius Laffey, an Irish-born journalist. Wresting his kin from the easy living of nineteenth-century Sydney, he takes them to northern Queensland where thousands of hopefuls are digging for gold in the mud. The family confronts the horror ...Show more
Reaching Tin River: Text Classics by Jennifer Down, Thea Astley
$12.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
"Beautifully written." --Publishers Weekly "Intelligent, fresh, and new." --Kirkus First published in 1990. Winner of the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction. Young Australian Belle, the daughter of an American musician, looks back on the people and forces that shaped her life. Researching in the archiv ...Show more
The Multiple Effects of Rainshadow by Thea Astley
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
In the little hours of January morning in 1930, Onan Island off the Queensland coast, a man goes berserk with a rifle and a box of gelignite. Is he evil? Or crazy? His violence is in fact a mirror for the brutality of Australian life - and is a dim reflection at that, in a country where atrocities by wh ...Show more
The Multiple Effects of Rainshadow: Text Classics by Thea Astley, Chloe Hooper
$12.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
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 s ...Show more
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