The Acolyte (novel)
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| Author | Thea Astley |
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| Country | Australia |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Novel |
| Publisher | Angus and Robertson, Australia |
Publication date | 1972 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Preceded by | A Boat Load of Home Folk |
| Followed by | A Kindness Cup |
The Acolyte is a Miles Franklin Award winning novel by Australian author Thea Astley.
It is told in the first person by “the acolyte,” Paul Vesper. The novel traces the career of a fictional Australian musician and composer named Jack Holberg. Beginning in obscurity as a piano player in Grogbusters, a dreary little Queensland town, the blind Holberg eventually gains international recognition as a composer. Vesper, who had met Holberg during his less renowned period, gives up an engineering career to serve the great man—in a sense, to become his eyes.
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| Preceded by The Unknown Industrial Prisoner |
Miles Franklin Award recipient 1972 |
Succeeded by No award |
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