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A Boat Load of Homefolk by Thea Astley
Category: Fiction
A group of tourists try to escape from their dissatisfaction with life on a trip to a tropical island, but find their plans disrupted by a hurricane
A Descant for Gossips by Thea Astley
Category: Fiction | Series: UQP Modern Classics
In this classic story of small-town life, two schoolteachers are drawn to each other by their concern for a lonely young girl. For 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, rumour and malice mo ...Show more
A Descant for Gossips by Thea Astley
Category: Fiction | Series: Paperbacks Ser.
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 ...Show more
A Kindness Cup: Text Classics by Thea Astley
Category: Classic Fiction | 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
BEACHMASTERS by ASTLEY THEA
Category: Fiction
The natives of Kristi attempt to become independent from the rest of their Pacific island group, but their revolution is shortlived. And it has cost them a great many lives.
COLLECTED STORIES: THEA ASTLEY by ASTLEY THEA
Category: Fiction
A collection of stories from one of Australia's most original writers which spans thirty-five years and includes many stories that have not been previously published.
Coda by Thea Astley
Category: Fiction
Thea Astley's brilliant satire on old age shimmers with grief and irony. One of Australia's most important novelists, Thea Astley, is at her most wickedly funny and pertinent in Coda.
Drylands: Text Classics by Thea Astley
Category: Classic Fiction | 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
Drylands: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2000 by Thea Astley
Category: Fiction
In her flat above Drylands' newsagency, Janet Deakin is writing a book for the world's last reader. Little has changed here in fifty years except for the coming of cable TV. Lonliness is almost a religion, and still everyone knows your business.
Girl with a Monkey by Thea Astley
Category: Fiction
Thea Astley's first novel, back in print.
Hunting the Wild Pineapple by Thea Astley
Category: Fiction
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