Drylands (novel)
 Penguin paperback edition, 2000 | |
| Author | Thea Astley |
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| Country | Australia |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Novel |
| Publisher | Penguin, Australia |
Publication date | 1999 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 293 pp |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-670-88619-X |
| OCLC | 42402469 |
| 823/.914 21 | |
| LC Class | PR9619.3.A75 D79 1999 |
| Preceded by | The Multiple Effects of Rainshadow |
Drylands (1999) (subtitled "A Book for the World's Last Reader") is a Miles Franklin Award winning novel by Australian author Thea Astley. This novel shared the award with Benang by Kim Scott.
Awards
- Miles Franklin Literary Award, 2000: joint winner
- Queensland Premier's Literary Awards, Best Fiction Book, 2000: winner
Reviews
- "Australian Book Review"
- Kerryn Goldsworthy: "Drylands is Astley's Waste Land, with a cast of exhausted and alienated characters wandering through it in the death-grip of entropy, pursued by fin de siècle furies and other personifications of failure and defeat. In the small town of Drylands there are no fragments shored against anybody's ruin (well, there are, but even the fragments get vandalized and tossed), and there is certainly none of the peace that passeth understanding." [1]
Notes
For a description of "drylands" see biomes.
References
- ↑ Undimmed Outrage by Kerryn Goldsworthy, p294
| Awards and achievements | ||
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| Preceded by Eucalyptus |
Miles Franklin Award recipient 2000 with Benang |
Succeeded by Dark Palace |
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