Coonardoo

Author(s): PRICHARD KATHERINE SUSANNAH

Fiction

A tough, uncompromising novel about the difficult love between a white man and a black woman. Coonardoo is the moving story of a young Aboriginal woman trained from childhood to be the housekeeper at Wytaliba station and, as such, destined to look after its owner, Hugh Watt. The love between Coonardoo and Hugh, which so shocked its readers when the book was first published in 1929, is never acknowledged and so, degraded and twisted in on itself, destroys not only Coonardoo, but also a community which was once peaceful. Introduced by Drusilla Modjeska, this frank and daring novel set on the edge of the desert still raises difficult questions about the history of contact between black and white, and its representation in Australian writing.

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General Fields

  • : 9780207198472
  • : HarperCollins Publishers Australia
  • : HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
  • : 0.254
  • : June 2002
  • : 200mm X 142mm X 19mm
  • : Australia
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : PRICHARD KATHERINE SUSANNAH
  • : Paperback
  • : Re-issue
  • : A823.2
  • : 272