The Acolyte (novel)
 First edition | |
| Author | Thea Astley |
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| Country | Australia |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Angus and Robertson |
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 first published in 1972.
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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| Awards and achievements | ||
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| Preceded by The Unknown Industrial Prisoner |
Miles Franklin Award recipient 1972 |
Succeeded by No award |
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