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A Kindness Cup: Text Classics by Thea Astley
12.95 AUD
Category: Literature | 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
Drylands: Text Classics by Thea Astley
12.95 AUD
Category: Literature | 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
Girl with a Monkey by Thea Astley
14.99 AUD
Category: Literature
Thea Astley's first novel, back in print.
Hunting the Wild Pineapple by Thea Astley
24.95 AUD
Category: Australian Literature | Reading Level: very good
Leverson, the narrator at the centre of these stories, calls himself a 'people freak.' Seduced by north Queensland's sultry beauty and unique strangeness, he is as fascinated by the invading hordes of misfits from the south as by the old established Queenslanders. Leverson's ironical yet compassionate v ...Show more
Reaching Tin River: Text Classics by Jennifer Down, Thea Astley
12.95 AUD
Category: Literature | 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: Text Classics by Thea Astley, Chloe Hooper
12.95 AUD
Category: Literature | 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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