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Author : Murray Bail
Publisher : University of Queensland Press(Australia)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book The Drover's Wife and Other Stories written by Murray Bail and published by University of Queensland Press(Australia). This book was released on 1984 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Leah Purcell
Publisher : Penguin Group Australia
ISBN 13 : 1760144266
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (61 download)
Download or read book The Drover's Wife written by Leah Purcell and published by Penguin Group Australia. This book was released on 2019-12-03 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deep in the heart of Australia’s high country, along an ancient, hidden track, lives Molly Johnson and her four surviving children, another on the way. Husband Joe is away months at a time droving livestock up north, leaving his family in the bush to fend for itself. Molly’s children are her world, and life is hard and precarious with only their dog, Alligator, and a shotgun for protection – but it can be harder when Joe’s around. At just twelve years of age Molly’s eldest son Danny is the true man of the house, determined to see his mother and siblings safe – from raging floodwaters, hunger and intruders, man and reptile. Danny is mature beyond his years, but there are some things no child should see. He knows more than most just what it takes to be a drover’s wife. One night under the moon’s watch, Molly has a visitor of a different kind – a black ‘story keeper’, Yadaka. He’s on the run from authorities in the nearby town, and exchanges kindness for shelter. Both know that justice in this nation caught between two worlds can be as brutal as its landscape. But in their short time together, Yadaka shows Molly a secret truth, and the strength to imagine a different path. Full of fury and power, Leah Purcell’s The Drover’s Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson is a brave reimagining of the Henry Lawson short story that has become an Australian classic. Brilliantly plotted, it is a compelling thriller of our pioneering past that confronts head-on issues of today: race, gender, violence and inheritance.
Author : Frank Moorhouse
Publisher : Random House Australia
ISBN 13 : 0143784838
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (437 download)
Download or read book The Drover's Wife written by Frank Moorhouse and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2017-10-30 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since Henry Lawson wrote his story 'The Drover’s Wife' in 1892, Australian writers, painters, performers and photographers have created a wonderful tradition of drover's wife works, stories and images. The Russell Drysdale painting from 1945 extended the mythology and it, too, has become an Australian icon. Other versions of the Lawson story have been written by Murray Bail, Barbara Jefferis, Mandy Sayer, David Ireland, Madeleine Watts and others, up to the present, including Leah Purcell's play and Ryan O’Neill’s graphic novel. In essays and commentary, Frank Moorhouse examines our ongoing fascination with this story and has collected some of the best pieces of writing on the subject. This remarkable, gorgeous book is, he writes, 'a monument to the drovers' wives'.
Author : Ryan O'Neill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781925589290
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (892 download)
Download or read book The Drover's Wives written by Ryan O'Neill and published by . This book was released on 2018-07 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry Lawson's short story 'The Drover's Wife' is an Australian classic that has sparked interpretations on the page, on canvas and on the stage. But it has never been so thoroughly, or hilariously, reimagined as by Ryan O'Neill, remixing and revising Lawson's masterpiece in ninety-nine different ways. You'll be amused, delighted and surprised by a Year 8 essay, a sporting commentary, a pop song, a cento, a dance and many more. Inventive and unexpected, this is laugh-out-loud literature from one of Australia's finest satirists.
Author : Ryan O'Neill
Publisher : Eye & Lightning Books
ISBN 13 : 1785631365
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (856 download)
Download or read book The Drover's Wives written by Ryan O'Neill and published by Eye & Lightning Books. This book was released on 2019-05-03 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry Lawson's short story 'The Drover's Wife' is an Australian classic that has sparked interpretations on the page, on canvas and on the stage. But it has never been so thoroughly, or hilariously, reimagined as by Ryan O'Neill, remixing and revising Lawson's masterpiece in 101 different ways. The variations include a pop song, a sporting commentary, a 1980s computer game, an insurance claim, a Hollywood movie adaptation, a cryptic crossword and even a selection of paint swatches. Inventive and unexpected, this is laugh-out-loud literature from the author of the award-winning Their Brilliant Careers. 'Pitch perfect...hilarious... This is a book that begs to be read aloud' THE AUSTRALIAN'More go than Queneau' DAVID BELBIN 'A cerebrally imaginative tour de force' FRANK MOORHOUSE
Author : Ryan O'Neill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781785630910
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (39 download)
Download or read book The Drover's Wives written by Ryan O'Neill and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry Lawson's short story The Drover's Wife is an Australian classic that has sparked interpretations on the page, on canvas and on the stage. But it has never been so thoroughly, or hilariously, reimagined as by Ryan O'Neill, remixing and revising Lawson's masterpiece in 101 different ways. The variations include a a pop song, a sporting commentary, a 1980s computer game, an insurance claim, a Hollywood movie adaptation, a cryptic crossword and even the selection of paint swatches you can see on this back cover. Inventive and unexpected, this is laugh-out-loud literature from the author of the award-winning Their Brilliant Careers. Inventive and unexpected, this is laugh-out-loud literature from one of Australia's finest satirists.
Author : Patsy Kemp
Publisher : Brolga Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0648697010
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (486 download)
Download or read book The Drover's Daughter written by Patsy Kemp and published by Brolga Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drovers hold an iconic place in our Australian identity, due to the courage and perseverance needed to transport cattle and sheep hundreds of kilometres through rural and outback areas. But what of the women and children who travelled with them?
Author : Murray Bail
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466840587
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book Eucalyptus written by Murray Bail and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2007-08-21 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year On a property in New South Wales, a widower named Holland lives with his daughter, Ellen. Over the years as she grows into a beautiful woman, Holland plants hundreds of different eucalyptus trees on his land, filling the landscape, making a virtual outdoor museum of trees. When Ellen is nineteen, Holland announces that she may only marry the man who can correctly name the species of each and every gum tree on his property. A strange contest begins, and Ellen is left unmoved by her suitors until she chances on a strange young man resting under the Coolibah tree whose stories will amaze and dazzle her. A modern fairy tale, and an unforgettable love story, that bristles with spiky truths and unexpected wisdom about art, feminine beauty, landscape, and language. Eucalyptus affirms the seductive power of storytelling itself.
Author : Murray Bail
Publisher : Text Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1922330949
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (223 download)
Download or read book He. written by Murray Bail and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fragments and reflections from the life of a revered Australian writer
Author : Henry Lawson
Publisher : Penguin Group Australia
ISBN 13 : 0143180126
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)
Download or read book The Penguin Henry Lawson Short Stories written by Henry Lawson and published by Penguin Group Australia. This book was released on 2009-03-02 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the great observers of Australian life, Henry Lawson looms large in our national psyche. Yet at his best Lawson transcends the very bush, the very outback, the very up-country, the very pub or selector's hut he conveys with such brevity and acuity- he make specific places universal. Henry Lawson is too often regarded as a legend rather than a writer to be enjoyed. In this selection Lawson is revealed as an author whose delightful, humorous, wry and moving short stories continue to delight generations of readers. This is the essential Lawson collection - the classic of Australian classics. 'Lawson's sketches are beyond praise.' Joseph Conrad'Lawson gets more feelings, observation and atmosphere into a page than does Hemingway.' Edward Garnett
Author : Elmer Kelton
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1429912782
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Six Bits a Day written by Elmer Kelton and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hewey Calloway, one of the best-loved cowboys in all of Western fiction, returns in this novel of his younger years as he and his beloved brother Walter leave the family farm in 1889 to find work in the West Texas cow country. The brothers are polar opposites. Walter pines for a sedate life as a farmer, with wife and children; Hewey is a fiddle-footed cowboy content to work at six bits--75 cents--a day on the Pecos River ranch owned by the penny-pinching C.C. Tarpley. Hewey, who "usually accepted the vagaries of life without getting his underwear in a twist", is fun-loving and whiskey-drinking. He spends every penny he earns and regularly gets into trouble with his boss--and occasionally with the law--often dragging innocent Walter along. When Walter falls in love with a boarding house girl and begins dreaming of a farmer's life, Hewey jumps at the chance to rescue him from this fate worse than death. He convinces Walter to join him on a mission for Tarpley, driving 600 head of cattle from beyond San Antonio to the Double-C ranch on the Pecos. The journey is both memorable and dangerous: a murderous outlaw is searching for Hewey; and another ruthless character is determined to sabotage the cattle drive. When the drovers reach the Pecos they find Boss Tarpley in the midst of a vicious range feud with Eli Jessup, a neighboring cowman. Hewey and his brother Walter have to get the herd safely across Jessup's land-but how? The events of Six Bits a Day precede those of Kelton's bestselling The Good Old Boys (1978, transformed into the memorable 1995 movie starring Tommy Lee Jones and Sissy Spacek), and The Smiling Country (Forge, 1998). At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author : Téa Obreht
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0812992865
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)
Download or read book Inland written by Téa Obreht and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the lawless, drought-ridden lands of the Arizona Territory in 1893, two extraordinary lives collide. Nora is an unflinching frontierswoman, alone in a house abandoned by the men in her life. Lurie is a man haunted by ghosts--he sees lost souls who want something from him. The way in which Nora and Lurie's stories intertwine is the surprise and suspense of this brilliant novel.ovel.
Author : Sara Luck
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451652240
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)
Download or read book Claiming the Heart written by Sara Luck and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the Texas and Pacific Railroad expands across the wide-open frontier, a spirited young woman finds a triumphant love amidst the tracks and tumult. Original.
Author : Henry Lawson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book While the Billy Boils written by Henry Lawson and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Scott Rankin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780733610691
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Box the Pony written by Scott Rankin and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The semi-autobiographical story of Leah Purcell - or her alter ego Stephanie - which traces the events of her life growing up on an impoverished Aboriginal mission in Queensland. Despite the poverty, violence, lack of education and opportunity, Stepanie is nurtured through the love of her family.
Author : Murray Bail
Publisher : Text Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1921961031
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (219 download)
Download or read book Homesickness: Text Classics written by Murray Bail and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2012-04-26 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirteen men and women travel the world on a package tour but wherever they go nothing is as it seems. Challenged by the unexpected, by differences and subtleties, Bail’s tourists are in turn repelled and attracted—and all are altered.
Author : Murray Bail
Publisher : Text Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1921520450
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (215 download)
Download or read book The Pages written by Murray Bail and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2009-06-12 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a family sheep station in western New South Wales, a brother and sister work the property while their reclusive brother, Wesley Antill, spends years toiling away in one of the sheds, writing his philosophy. Now he has died. Erica, a philosopher, is sent from Sydney to appraise his life's work. Accompanying her is Sophie, who needs distracting from a string of failed relationships. Her field is psychoanalysis. The pages Wesley wrote lie untouched in the shed, just as he left them. What will they reveal? Was he a genius? These turn out to be only a couple of the questions in the air. How will the visit change the lives of Erica and Sophie? The Pages is a beguiling meditation on friendship and love, on men and women, on landscape and the difficulties of thought itself, by one of Australia's greatest novelists, the author of the much-loved Eucalyptus.
