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Reaching Tin River

Author : Thea Astley
Publisher : Text Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1925626598
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (256 download)

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Download or read book Reaching Tin River written by Thea Astley and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2018-04-30 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tin River is a townlet of terminal attractiveness. Tin River is a state of mind. Researching in the archives Belle discovers the long-dead Gaden Lockyer, a colonial pioneer in Jericho Flats, and soon becomes obsessed. Belle’s quest for Lockyer is her way of coming to terms with the past—her mother, ‘a drummer in her own all-women’s group’; her absent American father; and her ineffectual husband, Seb. In Reaching Tin River, Thea Astley’s satire is at its sharpest and most entertaining. Thea Astley was born in Brisbane in 1925. Her first novel, Girl with a Monkey, was published in 1958 and her third, The Well Dressed Explorer (1962), won the Miles Franklin Literary Award. 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). Her last novel was Drylands (1999), her fourth Miles Franklin winner. Her fiction is distinguished by vivid imagery and metaphor; a complex, ironic style; and a desire to highlight oppression and social injustice. One of the most distinctive and influential Australian novelists of the twentieth century, Astley died in 2004. ‘How lucidly Ms. Astley evokes for us Australia's rough pioneer history and Belle's love for it...You will like this journey, I promise, and when it is over you will wish it weren't, and you will feel cross and want from Ms. Astley much, much more.’ New York Times ‘Dazzling imagery on every page...Beautifully written.’ Publishers Weekly ‘Intelligent, fresh, and new.’ Kirkus Reviews

Reaching Tin River

Author : Stephanie Alexander
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781863300643
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Reaching Tin River written by Stephanie Alexander and published by . This book was released on 1990-09-01 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Discussion notes on Thea Astley's Reaching Tin River

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 7 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (221 download)

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Download or read book Discussion notes on Thea Astley's Reaching Tin River written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Subverting the Empire

Author : Paul Genoni
Publisher : National Library Australia
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Subverting the Empire written by Paul Genoni and published by National Library Australia. This book was released on 2004 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper examines the way in which contemporary Australian novelists use various tropes derived from exploration in order to embellish themes of personal search in their fiction. By doing so they have borrowed from the language and myths created by what was essentially an exercise in imperialism, and applied them to the quest by individuals in the settler society to find a permanent spiritual home in the new country. The exploration imagery proves to be apposite, in that just as the empire's hopes were dashed when exploration of the inland was repelled by the barren heart of the continent, so too has the metaphysical exploration of the same spaces foundered on uncompromising and withholding landscapes.

Docket No. 12248

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 742 pages
Book Rating : 4.W/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Docket No. 12248 written by and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Cockatoos

Author : Patrick White
Publisher : Text Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1925774414
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (257 download)

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Download or read book The Cockatoos written by Patrick White and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential story collection from one of the foremost novelists of the twentieth century, now a part of the Text Classics series

Drylands

Author : Thea Astley
Publisher : Text Publishing
ISBN 13 : 192562661X
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (256 download)

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Download or read book Drylands written by Thea Astley and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2018-04-30 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This will be a book for the world’s last reader, she decided, chewing pen-end over an open exercise book. 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 of outback Australia in decline. Thea Astley was born in Brisbane in 1925. Her first novel, Girl with a Monkey, was published in 1958 and her third, The Well Dressed Explorer (1962), won the Miles Franklin Literary Award. 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). Her last novel was Drylands (1999), her fourth Miles Franklin winner. Her fiction is distinguished by vivid imagery and metaphor; a complex, ironic style; and a desire to highlight oppression and social injustice. One of the most distinctive and influential Australian novelists of the twentieth century, Astley died in 2004. ‘It is impossible to put this book down. It seethes with energy and passion.’ Herald Sun 'Wonderful.' Australian

Promise the Infinite

Author : Robert Richart
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1365097544
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book Promise the Infinite written by Robert Richart and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-05-07 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an annotated bibliography of English language novels which feature libraries or librarians from the 18th to the 21st century. It includes descriptions and quotes from the text. It includes novels, mysteries, science fiction, fantasy, and romance.

Kangaroo

Author : D. H. Lawrence
Publisher : Text Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1925774090
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (257 download)

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Download or read book Kangaroo written by D. H. Lawrence and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-29 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A landmark D. H. Lawrence novel, considered to be among the best writing about Australia.

Haunted Earth

Author : Peter Read
Publisher : UNSW Press
ISBN 13 : 9780868407265
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Haunted Earth written by Peter Read and published by UNSW Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tackles head on the existence and meaning of spirit forces in Australia. It poses the question is Australia haunted? If so where and with what?

Thea Astley's Fictional Worlds

Author : Paul Genoni
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443810622
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Thea Astley's Fictional Worlds written by Paul Genoni and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-05-05 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'This landmark contribution to Australian literary studies is the first collection of critical responses to the work of one of our most important novelists, Thea Astley. As well as essays from leading Australian and international critics, dating from 1967 to the present, it includes three essays by Astley herself, a major interview with her and the first Thea Astley lecture, given by Kate Grenville in 2005.' Professor Elizabeth Webby Sydney University

Rewriting God

Author : Elaine Lindsay
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004486232
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Rewriting God written by Elaine Lindsay and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-11-22 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women are rarely if ever mentioned in commentaries upon Australian Christianity and spirituality. Only exceptional women are recognized as authorities on religious matters. Why is this so? Does it matter? Don't people from the same religious tradition share similar experiences of the divine, regardless of their gender? Rewriting God asks whether women have been writing about the divine and whether their insights are different from those contained in malestream accounts of Australian Christianity and spirituality. An analysis of the writings of popular theologians and religious commentators over the last twenty years suggests that the most popular form of spirituality among Australian theologians is Desert Spirituality. An analysis of women's autobiographical writings, however, suggests that the desert is irrelevant to many women's spiritual experiences. This book, through a close investigation of the fictions of Thea Astley, Elizabeth Jolley and Barbara Hanrahan, attempts to posit alternative forms of women's spirituality and to signal ways in which this spirituality is already being expressed. From the evidence gathered here, it becomes obvious that traditional expressions of Australian Christianity and spirituality are gender-specific and that they have functioned to deny women's religious experiences and to silence their claims to equality in the sight and service of the divine. It becomes obvious, too, that women have been developing their own forms of religious expression and that these may be expected to supplant gradually withering images of Desert Spirituality. Whether this new imagery will strengthen Australian Christianity or whether it merely marks a decline in the authority of Christianity remains a moot point.

Australian Voices

Author : Ray Willbanks
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 9780292723788
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (237 download)

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Download or read book Australian Voices written by Ray Willbanks and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-03-15 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary Australian fiction is attracting a world audience, particularly in the United States, where a growing readership eagerly awaits new works. In Australian Voices, Ray Willbanks goes beyond the books to their authors, using sixteen interviews to reveal the state of fiction writing in Australia—what nags from the past, what engages the imagination for the future. Willbanks engages the writers in lively discussions of their own work, as well as topics of collective interest such as the past, including convict times; the nature of the land; the treatment of Aborigines; national identity and national flaws; Australian-British antipathy; sexuality and feminism; drama and film; writing, publishing, and criticism in Australia; and the continuous and pervasive influence of the United States on Australia. The interviews in Australian Voices are gossipy, often funny, and always informative, as Willbanks builds a structured conversation that reveals biography, personality, and significant insight into the works of each writer. They will be important for both scholars and the reading public.

A Descant for Gossips

Author : Thea Astley
Publisher : University of Queensland Press
ISBN 13 : 0702254983
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book A Descant for Gossips written by Thea Astley and published by University of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This stylish reissue of one of Thea Astley's finest early novels is a classic story of small-town life. Two schoolteachers are drawn to each other by their concern for a lonely young girl. 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, rumor and malice mount against Vinny and her two teachers, sweeping them toward scandal and, for one of them, disaster. A Descant for Gossips was Thea Astley's second novel, released in 1960 in England and Australia. In 1983 it was adapted for television by the ABC.

The Cambridge History of the Australian Novel

Author : David Carter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009093207
Total Pages : 826 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge History of the Australian Novel written by David Carter and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-05-31 with total page 826 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge History of the Australian Novel is an authoritative volume on the Australian novel by more than forty experts in the field of Australian literary studies, drawn from within Australia and abroad. Essays cover a wide range of types of novel writing and publishing from the earliest colonial period through to the present day. The international dimensions of publishing Australian fiction are also considered as are the changing contours of criticism of the novel in Australia. Chapters examine colonial fiction, women's writing, Indigenous novels, popular genre fiction, historical fiction, political novels, and challenging novels on identity and belonging from recent decades, not least the major rise of Indigenous novel writing. Essays focus on specific periods of major change in Australian history or range broadly across themes and issues that have influenced fiction across many years and in many parts of the country.

The Atlantic Companion to Literature in English

Author : Ed. Mohit K. Ray
Publisher : Atlantic Publishers & Dist
ISBN 13 : 9788126908325
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book The Atlantic Companion to Literature in English written by Ed. Mohit K. Ray and published by Atlantic Publishers & Dist. This book was released on 2007-09 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intended To Serve The Academic Needs Of The Students Of English Literature, The Companion Is An Ultimate Literary Reference Source, Providing An Up-To-Date, Comprehensive And Authoritative Biographies Of Novelists, Poets, Playwrights, Essayists, Journalists And Critics Ranging From Literary Giants Of The Past To Contemporary Writers Like Peter Burnes (1931-2004), Anthony Powell (1905-2000), Patrick O Brian (1914-2000), Iris Murdoch (1919-1999), Grace Nicholas (1950- ) And Douglas Adams (1952-2001). Over The Last Few Decades English Literary Canon Has Become Relatively More Extensive And Diverse. In Recognition Of The Significance Of The New Literatures In English, Special Emphasis Has Been Given On The Writers Of These Literatures. In Addition, The Indian Writers Writing In English Have Been Given A Prominent Place In The Book, Thereby Making It Particularly Useful For The Students Of Indian English Literature. The Companion Is Unique Of Its Kind As It Gives A Broad Outline Of The Story And Not Merely A Brief Account Of The Plot Structure Of A Literary Work So As To Enable The Students To Have A Fairly Good Idea Of The Story. Likewise, Before Getting Down To The Writings Of An Author, The Companion Provides An Invaluable And Authoritative Biographical Note Believing That An Author S Biography Facilitates Proper Understanding Of His/Her Contributions.On Account Of Its Clear And Reliable Plot Summaries And Descriptive Entries Of Major Works And Literary Journals And Authentic Biographical Details, The Companion Is A Work Of Permanent Value. It Is Undoubtedly An Indispensable And Path-Breaking Handy Reference Guide For All Those Interested In Literatures In English Produced In The United Kingdom, The United States, Canada, Australia, Africa, The Caribbean, India And Other Countries.

Hemet/San Jacinto Integrated Recharge and Recovery Program, Riverside County

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book Hemet/San Jacinto Integrated Recharge and Recovery Program, Riverside County written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: