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Thea Astley : inventing her own weather / Karen Lamb.
Van Pelt Library PR9619.3.A75 Z458 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lamb, Karen, 1956- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Astley, Thea.
- Women authors, Australian--Biography.
- Women authors, Australian.
- Novelists, Australian--Biography.
- Novelists, Australian.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 360 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- St Lucia, Qld. University of Queensland Press, 2015.
- Summary:
- Over a fifty-year writing career, Astley published more than a dozen novels and short story collections, including The Acolyte, The Slow Natives and, finally, Drylands in 1999. She was the first woman to win multiple Miles Franklin Awards - four in total. With many of her works published internationally, Astley was a trailblazer for women writers. In her personal life, she was renowned for her dry wit, eccentricity and compassion. A loving mother and wife, she rose above the domestic limitations imposed on women at the time to carve out a professional life true to her creative drive. Karen Lamb has drawn on an unparalleled range of interviews and correspondence to create a detailed picture of Thea the woman, as well as Astley the writer. She has sought to understand Astley's private world and how that shaped the distinctive body of work that is Thea Astley's literary legacy.
- Contents:
- Part 1 The Hinterland
- 1 The hinterland of childhood 3
- 2 Suspected of reading 25
- 3 Barjai: A meeting place 44
- 4 We've Freud and Nietzsche at our finger-tips 59
- Part 2 Dream Country
- 5 Dream Country 73
- 6 Jack 87
- 7 The Gorgon of Epping North 103
- 8 An armed neutrality 128
- 9 I merely crave an intelligent buddy 147
- 10 Writing as a neuter 163
- Part 3 North Of Nostalgia
- 11 The oldest senior tutor in the Commonwealth 187
- 12 North of nostalgia 202
- 13 Living is serial 219
- 14 Jane Austen of the rainforest 236
- Part 4 Personal Weather
- 15 Pictures from a family album 257
- 16 Inventing her own weather 278
- 17 Curving 292.
- ISBN:
- 9780702253560 :
- 0702253561
- 9780702253560
- OCLC:
- 892731271
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